While the first trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. are a milestone, the issue of territorial concessions remains the key sticking point

Ukraine and Russia will hold joint peace talks Friday with the United States, the first trilateral meeting since the Kremlin's full-scale invasion nearly four years ago.

Vladimir Putin has told Donald Trump’s envoys that peace will not be possible unless Ukraine cedes territory to Russia.

The threat came as hours of late night 'peace talks' involving Putin and Trump envoys ended with the Kremlin ruling out ending the war in Ukraine - unless it surrendered Donbas

Finnish president dismantles the idea Russia is winning war in Ukraine: ‘Utter strategic failure’ - Alexander Stubb says the war has caused Nato to expand and European countries to increase their defe

Mr Putin praised Russia’s constructive role in Latin America and the Middle East. He made no mention of America’s armed forces having abducted Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, a Russian ally whom he had welcomed in the Kremlin eight months earlier—much less of how easily they had knocked out Venezuela’s Russian-built air defences.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's willingness to conclude a peace deal on Ukraine is being tested. Rutte said this at the World Economic Forum in Davos, according to Bloomberg. Rutte rejected the idea that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is the main obstacle to a peace deal with Russia.

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the pre-revolutionary era and Soviet power., World News, Times Now