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Donald Trump <\/a>has warned of \u201cone or two thorny issues\u201d as he concluded peace talks with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> on Sunday.
The US president claimed the leaders \u201ccould be very close\u201d to agreeing on a deal following crunch talks on his 20-point peace plan<\/a>.
Mr Zelensky told reporters security guarantees between the US and Ukraine had been \u201c100 per cent agreed\u201d, and that guarantees between the US, Europe, and Ukraine were \u201calmost agreed\u201d.
Mr Trump said he had spoken to Russian leader Vladimir Putin ahead of the meeting.
A Kremlin spokesperson said both Mr Trump and Mr Putin did not want a temporary ceasefire ahead of any agreement, and urged Ukraine to make a decision over the contested Donbas region.
It comes as Moscow warned that any European troop contingents deployed to Ukraine<\/a> would become legitimate targets for Russia\u2019s armed forces in comments published by Russia\u2019s state news agency TASS on Sunday.
Mr Putin warned that Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force if Ukraine didn\u2019t want to resolve the conflict peacefully.
A Russian court has sentenced a pro-war activist and critic of President Vladimir Putin to to six years in prison on Thursday.
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Even as he tried to boast once again Sunday about his supposed record of peacemaking, it is becoming increasingly possible that Trump\u2019s very public refusal to give up his hurt feelings could make a solution \u2014 or the political will to enact it \u2014 all the more difficult.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he and President Donald Trump made significant progress in talks, and agreed that US and Ukrainian teams would meet next week to finalise issues aimed at ending Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.
\u201cWe had a substantive conversation on all issues and highly value the progress that the Ukrainian and American teams have made over the past weeks,\u201d Mr Zelensky said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.
The world appreciates Donald Trump\u2019s peace efforts, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on X early on Monday after the US president met for peace talks with President Zelensky.
\u201cThe whole world appreciates President Trump and his team\u2019s peace efforts,\u201d Mr Dmitriev, Russia’s special envoy for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, wrote on X.
EU chief Ursula Von der Leyen has hailed \u201cgood progress\u201d made in peace talks on Sunday.
In a post on X she wrote: \u201cWe had a good, one-hour-long call with @POTUS<\/a>, President @ZelenskyyUa<\/a> and several European leaders to discuss their meeting today on peace negotiations.
\u201cThere was good progress, which we welcomed. Europe is ready to keep working with Ukraine and our US partners to consolidate this progress.
\u201cParamount to this effort is to have ironclad security guarantees from day one.\u201d
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