(Eva Hartog – Politico) As negotiators gear up for another round of U.S.-brokered talks to end the war in Ukraine, Moscow and Kyiv remain deadlocked over the core disagreements that have defined the conflict since it began. On Monday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his negotiating team could meet with the Russians and Americans as soon as Sunday. The Ukrainian president is ready to sit down with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, according to his foreign minister Andrii Sybiha. But, Sybiha acknowledged, “the most sensitive issues are still unresolved.”. Before talks last weekend in the United Arab Emirates, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said the differences had been boiled down to one, “solvable,” issue. Speaking in Davos, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters he believed a deal on Ukraine was “reasonably close.”
A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine looks close, except on everything that matters – POLITICO
