Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says progress in US-led peace talks ‘quite solid’

US President Donald Trump has for months been pushing for a peace agreement

A soldier walks through the ruins of the town of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine’s 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)

Initial drafts of US proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv’s demands, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

But he suggested that neither side in the almost four-year war is likely to get everything it wants in talks on reaching a settlement.