The leak of the call to Bloomberg News has not gone down well in Russia, with the Kremlin calling it “unacceptable” and “clearly aimed” at hindering the peace talks. Donald Trump's brash negotiating style left many in Europe suspecting he wants a quick deal that forces Europeans to make it work and pay for it. All while the US profits.

Russia is threatening to reject President Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan unless "key understandings" from his Alaska summit with President Putin are upheld.

Ukrainian officials have agreed to most of a U.S.-backed peace deal to end the war with Russia, unnamed U.S. officials told multiple news outlets.

Ukraine and Russia traded deadly blows Tuesday, firing hundreds of drones in overnight assaults that came just hours before Washington officials met with their Kyiv and Moscow counterparts to discuss a new proposal to end the war.

The world’s attention was fixed on talks between Ukraine and the U.S. in neutral Geneva over the weekend. Delegations from both countries have redrafted conditions of an earlier peace plan, which although it has not been officially released,

The United States-proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan now has fewer points following negotiations in Switzerland to try to make the draft proposal more acceptable to Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official close to the matter. The initial 28-point peace plan now has 19 points, according to the official. It is unclear what points were removed.

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

US President Donald Trump “remains hopeful and optimistic that a deal can be struck” to end Russia’s war with Ukraine. Follow live updates

The attack killed at least seven people in Kyiv, the authorities said, as Moscow suggested it would resist changes negotiated by Ukraine.