Ukraine war live: US reportedly believes ceasefire could be agreed by Easter
White House is said to acknowledge that timeline is ambitious given large gaps between Ukraine and Russia in ceasefire negotiations
My colleagues Pjotr Sauer, Shaun Walker and Andrew Roth have filed this report on what we can expect when delegations from Kyiv, Moscow and Washington meet in Saudi Arabia on Monday for further so-called peace talks. Here is an extract from their story:
Ukraine will have a delegation in Riyadh on the same day the US is holding ceasefire talks there with a Russian negotiating team led by a secretive former FSB chief who played a key role in planning Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion.
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