Two days of peace talks in Geneva between Ukraine and Russia ended yesterday without a breakthrough, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accusing Moscow of stalling US-mediated efforts to end the four-year-old war.
Ukraine has faced repeated pressure from US President Donald Trump to agree to a deal that could mean painful concessions, as Russian forces pound its power grid and slowly advance on the battlefield.
As the delegations met for a second day at a hotel in the Swiss city, under the mediation of US envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Zelenskiy had called the first day “difficult”.
“We can state that Russia is trying to drag out negotiations that could already have reached the final stage,” he wrote on X.
Moments after his statement, the delegations broke off the talks and said they would meet again in the future, without providing a date.
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