The Kremlin on Thursday said that a meeting between the U.S., Ukraine and European countries in Paris was a chance for U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to inform them of the current status of talks about the search for a peace settlement in Ukraine.

Dmitry Peskov asserts that negotiations regarding the potential end of the war in Ukraine "are quite difficult." The Kremlin thus contradicts Donald Trump's assurances. "We’ll see what happens — but I think it’s going well,