Prospects for renewed peace negotiations to end the war that Russia launched on Ukraine nearly three years ago have increased after US President Donald Trump said that he had been in contact with Kyiv and Putin.
He set out last summer his terms for an immediate end to the war which included that Ukraine must drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw its troops from the entirety of the territory of four eastern Ukrainian provinces claimed and mostly controlled by Russia.
Keith Kellogg, the US special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, reportedly told allies in recent meetings that he was preparing options to end the war in Ukraine,.
“This Russian terror against Ukraine will not stop on its own,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the attack, urging unity among partners for a just end to the war.
Ukraine’s air force said it shot down six out of seven ballistic missiles launched in the latest attack on the country which Putin sought to invade almost three years ago.
