Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday that Moscow has not seen revised U.S. proposals made after the most recent talks with Ukraine, but that it may not like parts of them. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday Kyiv had agreed on key points of a post-war reconstruction plan in talks with U.

American and Ukrainian representatives continued discussions on a possible framework for a peace deal to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor on Saturday.

The U.S. has seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Also, Ukraine responded to the U.S.-backed peace plan with Russia.

Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelenskiy said the U.S. is offering as a compromise to create a "free economic zone" in the Ukraine-controlled parts of the eastern Donbas which Russia has demanded that Ukraine cede. The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here.

Pope Leo XIV is insisting that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal. And he is criticizing what he says is the Trump administration’s effort to “break apart” the long-standing U.S.

The United States has suggested creating a “free economic zone” in parts of the eastern Donbas region from which Ukraine would withdraw under a negotiated peace with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.

UKRAINE-CRISIS-FRANCE:Ukraine, US, Europeans still working on common stance for peace push, French official says

Negotiators from the White House and Ukraine agreed on a “framework of security arrangements” and discussed what deterrence capabilities would be necessary as part of a peace deal to end the war with Russia,

KYIV, Ukraine -- KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “hasn’t read” a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.