Bloomberg News reported that president Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, in a telephone call with Yuri Ushakov, Russian president Vladimir Putin's foreign policy aide, said they should work together on a ceasefire plan for Ukraine and that Putin should raise it with Trump.

Russia is threatening to reject President Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan unless "key understandings" from his Alaska summit with President Putin are upheld.

Trump and Putin held their call two days later, at Russia’s request, and the US president described the two-and-a-half-hour-long conversation as “very productive.” Afterward, he announced plans to meet with the Russian leader in Budapest, a summit that is yet to take place, and also mentioned that Putin had congratulated him on the Gaza deal.

Ukraine has agreed to a deal to end the war with Russia with only “minor details” outstanding, a US official said. Follow for live updates