Donald Trump has been asked about the state of peace talks after his team met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. He said we will have to “see what happens” – adding the Russian president want to “end the war”. Follow the latest.
Wednesday 3 December 2025 21:56, UK
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The AP news agency has reported that aides of Donald Trump will meet with a leading Ukrainian negotiator in Miami tomorrow for more peace talks on the war.
It comes after the US president said in the last hour that he was given the impression Vladimir Putin would like to end the war, and that the meeting between Russia’s president and top US negotiators in Moscow yesterday had been “very good”.
Donald Trump has been speaking about the war in Ukraine to reporters in the Oval Office, after an announcement on domestic fuel economy standards.
Asked about the meeting between Vladimir Putin and top US negotiators in Moscow yesterday, he says: “I don’t know what the Kremlin’s doing.
“I can tell you that they had a reasonably good meeting with President Putin. We’re going to find out.
“I thought they had a very good meeting yesterday with President Putin, and we’ll see what happens.”
Elaborating further, Trump adds: “What comes out of that meeting I can’t tell you, because it does take two to tango.
“Ukraine, I think we have something pretty well worked out with them, they’re very satisfied.”
Trump says he spoke with special envoy Steve Witkoff about the meeting last night.
Asked if he was told Putin still wanted to end the war, Trump says: “He would like to end the war. That was their impression.
“I think he’d like to get back to dealing a more normal life.”
Earlier today, the EU announced it had agreed a deal for the bloc to entirely phase out Russian gas imports by September 2027 (see 09.10 post).
Reacting on social media, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the deal “will end Moscow’s energy blackmail and help cut off the revenues that fuel its war”.
Addressing the bloc’s support for Ukraine, she said: “Close friends stand together.
“As intense efforts to end Russia’s war continue, one thing is clear: Ukraine can count on our full support.”
None of Ukraine’s unmanned maritime drones have entered Romanian waters, its security service has said.
In a statement, the SBU said all of its boats, known as “sea baby drones”, that were engaged in operational tasks in the Black Sea region were accounted for.
It comes after Romania’s defence ministry said its military had blown up a maritime drone that was endangering navigation in the Black Sea and identified the drone as a “sea baby”, developed by Ukraine.
Romania, an EU member that shares a land border with Ukraine, has faced notable incursions by air rather than by sea in recent months.
Its defence ministry said it scrambled two fighter jets after two drones breached its airspace last week.
Jets were also scrambled in Romania when a drone flew into its airspace on 13 September during a Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosted German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in London today during the latter’s state visit.
Unsurprisingly, the war in Ukraine was addressed during discussions in Number 10, a Downing Street spokesman said.
“The prime minister hosted President Steinmeier of Germany for a bilateral in Downing Street this afternoon.
“The prime minister welcomed President Steinmeier on the first state visit from a German president to the United Kingdom in 27 years.
“He reflected on the progress made since the Kensington Treaty was signed earlier this year which would enable even stronger security, defence and economic cooperation between the UK and Germany.
“The leaders agreed on the importance of continuing to work together to deliver a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.”
For context: Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are seen as two of the leading figures in the self-titled coalition of the willing.
Donald Trump must help Vladimir Putin realise he will not get what he wants in any Ukraine peace talks, a former US ambassador to Ukraine says.
William B. Taylor tells our chief presenter Mark Austin he believes Trump is still committed to ending the killing in the conflict and is not walking away, despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio not attending a key NATO meeting in Brussels today.
The original US 28-point peace plan first sent to Kyiv has since been revised to a 20-point plan after talks between the US and Ukraine in Geneva and Florida.
Asked what he thinks Trump’s next move will be, Taylor says: “One next step needs to be pressure on Putin to bring him to realise that he’s not going to win, he’s not going to get what he wanted.
“That wish list that they sent in earlier is now off the table, as he heard last night from [US special envoy Steve] Witkoff. That’s not what’s on offer.
“It is something that is more balanced, it is fair to Ukraine, the Europeans have supported it.
“Now the pressure needs to be on Putin to come on board.”
Watch Taylor’s interview here…
Donald Trump has been briefed on the “thorough, productive meeting” between Vladimir Putin and top US negotiators in Moscow yesterday, a White House official has said.
Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, two key figures in the negotiating team, spoke with the US president and Ukrainian officials after the peace talks.
“The United States and Russia participated in a thorough, productive meeting. Special envoy Witkoff and Mr Kushner briefed the president and the Ukrainians afterwards,” the official said.
The comments come after the Kremlin said it was wrong to say that Putin had rejected the US-proposed plan discussed yesterday, with the talks marking a first exchange of opinions (see 09.37 post).
Images are coming through this evening of the aftermath of a Russian attack in the eastern Dnipro region.
A rocket strike on the city of Kryvyi Rih damaged an administrative building, two educational institutions and private homes last night, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said.
Three people, including a girl, were also injured due to shelling.
The meeting between Vladimir Putin and top US negotiators in Moscow yesterday was “sham talks”, a former Ukrainian prime minister has said.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk tells presenter Mark Austin the Russian president will continue to drag his feet in the peace talks as he only wants to subjugate Ukraine.
“[There is] no doubt that Putin is tapping President Trump along,” he says.
“He humiliated President Trump in Anchorage [in August], and he is doing the same right now in Moscow.”
While Ukraine is facing “tremendous complications and trouble” with a lack of ammunition and financial support, Putin’s situation is far from perfect either, Yatsenyuk says.
Asked if Ukraine can hold off Russia with European help alone, he adds: “There is no way, just no way to fight against Putin without Americans.
“If Americans stand back on Ukraine, this would be a disaster, not only for Ukraine and for Europe, not only for NATO and for the free world, this would be a disaster bigger than the notorious withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan.
“This would be a complete humiliation of the United States of America, and I hope that this administration clearly understands this.”
Earlier, NATO chief Mark Rutte insisted Donald Trump was the only person who could break the deadlock on the war in Ukraine (see 14.48 post).
Our US correspondent Mark Stone says the comments are nothing new, as Rutte said exactly the same thing to him in Washington a few months ago.
“What Mark Rutte is doing is speaking publicly to Donald Trump, whose envoy the Secretary of State Marco Rubio was not there at that meeting, and reminding Donald Trump [that] we value your judgement, we value your input, we value your your style, and we want you to remain with us, Europe, on this quest to find a just peace in Ukraine.”
Rubio’s absence from today’s meeting in Brussels “speaks volumes” as he is far more focused publicly on matters in the western hemisphere than in Europe, Stone says.
“I think it goes to the heart of European concerns that increasingly, America is not that interested in the future of Europe and a secure Ukraine, and that much is evident by the way the talks have been going and the way that Trump appears to have been putting his weight behind Vladimir Putin and not necessarily behind the Ukrainians.”
Watch Stone’s analysis here…
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