Putin's comments follow the latest flurry of meetings set in motion by US President Donald Trump in what has been the most intense diplomatic push to stop the fighting since Russia launched its war against Ukraine nearly four years ago.

As Russia and Ukraine work to secure a peace agreement, Marco Rubio has said that it is coming down to a "30 to 50 km piece of land."

Several top Ukrainian officials were expected to be in Brussels on Wednesday for meetings with European national security advisers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's five-hour talks with Trump envoys yield no Ukraine war breakthrough as territorial disputes remain unresolved despite "constructive" discussions.

As President Trump pushes Ukraine to accept a Russian landgrab in exchange for peace, a wounded soldier asks, "How much more can we give?"

Tens of thousands of people were left without power and heating in southern Ukraine after Russian night-time attacks on the frontline city of Kherson and Ukraine's largest seaport, Odesa, local authorities and the energy company said on Thursday.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with President Donald Trump ’s special envoy tasked with negotiating an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, as well as his son-in-law, for a "constructive" five-hour meeting Tuesday, but more work needs to be done, Yuri Ushakov, a foreign policy adviser to Putin, said in a video the Kremlin posted online.

President Donald Trump's top officials are meeting with a team of Ukrainian negotiators in Florida. Trump has been trying to broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine since he took office.

President Vladimir Putin has warned again that Ukrainian troops must withdraw from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region or Russia will seize it, rejecting any compromise over how to end the war in Ukraine.