Moscow mulls position as Zelensky reveals new peace plan

⁠Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed about contacts with President Donald Trump's envoys on US proposals for a possible Ukrainian peace deal and Moscow will now formulate its position, the Kremlin said. Volodymyr Zelensky revealed details of the updated plan, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed on A heavily damaged residential building following a Russian drone strike in Kyiv yesterday Explosive ordnance disposal specialists work alongside police officers to collect debris in Kyiv, Ukraine Mr Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly complained that ending the Ukraine war - the deadliest in Europe since World War II - has been the most elusive foreign policy aim of his presidency. Ukraine and its European allies are worried that Mr Trump could sell out Ukraine and leave European powers to foot the bill for supporting a devastated Ukraine after Russian forces took roughly 15sq/km of Ukrainian land per day in 2025. Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the country won some concessions in the latest version of a US-led draft plan to end the Russian invasion, although key questions remain over territory and whether Moscow could accept the new terms. Mr Zelensky conceded there are some points in the document that he does not like, but Kyiv has succeeded in removing immediate requirements for Ukraine to withdraw from the Donetsk region or that land seized by Moscow's army would be recognised as Russian. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that envoy Kirill Dmitriev had briefed Mr Putin on the trip to Miami for contacts with Mr Trump's envoys. But Mr Peskov refused to be drawn on Russia's reaction to the proposals, or the exact format of the documents, saying that the Kremlin was not going to communicate via the ⁠media. We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Manage Preferences "All the main parameters of the Russian side's position are well known to our colleagues from the United States," Mr Peskov told reporters. "Now we mean to formulate ⁠our position on the basis of the information that was received by the head of state and continue our contacts in the very near future through the existing channels that are ⁠currently ‍working." Mr Zelensky has indicated the proposal would pave the way for Kyiv to pull some troops back, including from the 20% of the Donetsk region that it controls, where demilitarised zones would be established. It also got rid of demands that Kyiv must legally renounce its bid for NATO membership. Mr Zelensky presented the plan during a two-hour briefing with journalists, reading from a highlighted and annotated version. "In the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, the line of troop deployment as of the date of this agreement is de facto recognised as the line of contact," Mr Zelensky said of...

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