President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are making progress in peace talks but called the conflict difficult to solve on Tuesday night.

President Donald Trump's efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war closely mirrors the tactics he used to end two years of fighting between Israel and Hamas: bold terms that favor one side, deadlines for the combatants and vague outlines for what comes next.

The Kremlin has expressed fury after a transcript of a phone call leaked showing a Moscow aide agree that Putin would flatter Trump in a bid to reach a Ukraine peace deal.

President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow next week with other senior U.S. officials for talks with Russian leaders about a possible peace plan for Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.

The Geneva plan would freeze Russian control of captured Ukrainian territory along the current front lines, restricts Ukraine’s peacetime forces to 800,000, forbids Nato troops from being stationed there in peacetime and demands both sides sign a non-aggression pact.

The youngest-ever US army secretary has been thrust into the spotlight as the face of renewed efforts to end the years-long war.

The Russian negotiator, whose phone conversation with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff was recently published, has claimed the Kremlin had nothing to do with the leak. Yuri Ushakov, the senior Russian foreign policy adviser whom Witkoff allegedly coached on how to pitch a peace deal to President Donald Trump,