Russian invasion

Negotiations
Rubio: Both Moscow and Kyiv must compromise

Trump administration officials tried on Sunday to portray the failed attempt to reach a ceasefire with Russia as a step in a longer process towards peace, writes the New York Times.

“We are committed to trying to reach a peace agreement that permanently ends the fighting,” White House envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN.

He also said that Russia is ready to make some concessions in the negotiations, but did not go into any further details about it.

At the same time, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was interviewed on several American television programs. He emphasized that an agreement on a ceasefire or peace cannot be reached without Ukraine participating in the talks and emphasized that both sides must be ready to compromise.

“Otherwise, thousands of people will continue to die,” Rubio said on CBS’s Face the Nation.

Zelenskyj: Putin does not want to stop killing – but must

Russia shows no signs of wanting to hold a meeting with both the US and Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj says at a press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

If Russia refuses to agree to such a meeting, new sanctions must be imposed, he says, according to AFP.

– Putin does not want to stop killing, but he must do it, Zelensky says, according to CNN.

At Monday's meeting with Donald Trump, Zelensky will be joined by several European leaders. 

Voices on the negotiations
Trump promises "great progress" in the negotiations

Donald Trump has taken to social media to complain that the "fake news media" is trying to distort what he believes is the truth about his summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

"I had a great meeting in Alaska about Biden's stupid war," he writes.

In a follow-up post, he writes that the “radical left Democrats” would say it would have been a bad deal if Trump had gotten Russia to hand over Moscow in a peace deal.

He ends his angry cavalcade of posts by promising that progress is on the horizon, without mentioning any details.

“Big progress is coming. More info is coming!”, he writes in capital letters