United States presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised a senior Kremlin official on how President Vladimir Putin should pitch a Ukraine peace deal to Donald Trump, according to a transcript of their conversation published by Bloomberg.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday his plan to end the war in Ukraine has been “fine-tuned” and he’s sending envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with

Satellite imagery showed construction progress at Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, El-Dabaa, a Russian-built facility set to host four reactors. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el‑Sisi celebrated the installation of the first reactor pressure vessel at the plant, in a video-conference on Wednesday.

President Trump said that he wants an answer from President Volodymyr Zelensky on his 28-point Ukraine plan by Thursday, but says an extension is possible to finalize terms.

Kirill Dmitriev has emerged as a key player in drafting a new proposal to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine. But he is not a professional diplomat.

Igor Sechin, one of the most influential men in Russia's energy sector, said on Tuesday that sanctions imposed by the United States, European powers and their allies on Russia and China will trigger an economic crisis in the West.

They allegedly reject both the European and the American proposal, because neither fullfills the Russian demands for the war.

The road to a peace deal has been fraught with changing dynamics involving President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.