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The phone call leaked in the German media reveals size of rift between Europe and Washington

Der Spiegel quotes leaked call in which European leaders voice doubts about Washington’s approach to peace talks

Once again there is an impasse in the attempts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. A five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the US team led by Donald Trump’s envoys, businessmen Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, has failed to make any…

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urged Putin to “stop wasting the world’s time,” while the UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper called on the Russian leader to “end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to come to the table and to support a just and lasting peace”.

European leaders criticised Washington’s approach to peace talks in leaked transcript of call

Trump said their impression was that Putin wants "to see the war ended," but it wasn't clear what progress had been made in the talks.

Russian leader’s rejection of latest peace proposal was predictable and shows the Kremlin continues to hold the trump card

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: By entertaining a Ukrainian peace deal whose miserable terms not even a desperate US president could accept – before then promptly abandoning it – Moscow is stalling for time. The coalition of the willing must put more pressure on the faltering Russian economy

Rhetoric between Russia and Europe has ramped up after talks between Donald Trump’s envoy and Vladimir Putin failed to reach an agreement

Start-and-stop negotiations for a deal to end the war in Ukraine have been injected with new intensity after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a 28-point peace proposal.

The U.S. delegation, led by envoy and former real-estate executive Steve Witkoff and joined by Jared Kushner, met with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Tuesday evening in a push to revive the stalemated negotiations.