President Zelensky says giving Ukrainian territory to Russia is the "main problem" after talks on a US-backed peace plan
Overnight, the US and Ukraine said weekend talks in Geneva about the 28-point peace plan were "highly productive"
But, speaking in a video message to the Swedish parliament on Monday, Zelensky says Putin "wants legal recognition to what he has stolen, to break the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty"
European leaders criticised the plan when it emerged last week, saying it was too favourable to Russia – here's what we know about the proposal
Meanwhile, Russian attacks on Ukraine continue, with at least four people killed by a drone attack on Kharkiv on Sunday
Edited by Jamie Whitehead and Tinshui Yeung
The Kremlin says it hasn't received an updated peace plan following the weekend's talks between US and Ukrainian officials in Geneva.
Speaking this morning, Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov says Vladimir Putin's administration has been following the discussions and understands that "some adjustments" have been made to the peace plans Russia had previously received.
But he adds: "So far, we have not received anything officially."
Peskov also says there are no plans for Russian talks with a US delegation about Ukraine this week.
Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent in Geneva
We understand that the talks in Geneva are over after an intense day of diplomacy on Sunday, with all the key negotiators leaving town.
Marco Rubio left last night and the Ukrainian delegation has also returned to Kyiv, according to Ukrainian state media who were covering the talks. The UK security adviser Jonathan Powell has now gone, diplomats here say.
Yesterday, Marco Rubio made clear that the push for a peace proposal – a "living, breathing document" as he called it – was a process that had been in the works for three weeks prior to the high level talks, and would continue away from Geneva.
“We have all kinds of people on technical levels working full time on this,” Rubio told the press before flying out of Switzerland last night. “There are a handful of technical items that we expect answers from on or suggestions in the next 24 hours or so. So this is an ongoing process.”
The US idea was to get the big names round the same table on Sunday to try to “iron out” some issues and the US secretary of state said they had made “great strides”.
Those involved will now report back to their respective presidents.
What are media outlets in Russia saying about Donald Trump's latest push to end the war in Ukraine?
The BBC's Russia editor Steve Roseberg has been looking through the morning papers to find out.
He notes there's significant scepticism that this round of diplomacy will bring results – and there's also a lot of finger pointing at Kyiv and Europe.
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A former MI6 chief has praised this weekend’s peace talks as a “good approach”, but says the initial proposals were just Moscow talking points.
Alex Younger, who led MI6 from 2014 to 2020, tells the BBC that the original proposals – which asked Kyiv to cut its military by the thousands and commit to not joining Nato – would have left Ukraine “a tethered goat” after Russia created a weakness it would later exploit.
If Ukraine had agreed to this straight away, Younger tells the Today programme, “the war would restart”.
He says the idea that Ukraine’s army should be so limited it can’t defend itself is an “absolute non-starter”.
Instead, Younger says the only security guarantee that matters is Ukraine having a powerful, well-equipped army able to defend itself – the “porcupine strategy”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has just addressed the Swedish parliament via video link.
He says this is "a critical moment", and Ukraine is working "closely with the US and other European partners to define steps" to end the war in Ukraine.
"Putin wants legal recognition to what he has stolen, to break the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty. That's the main problem. You all understand what that means," he says.
Putin wants this "not only from Ukraine, he wants it from the whole world, and it's very dangerous."
Zelensky adds that during the talks so far, they've managed to keep "very sensitive points" on the table, including the release of all Ukrainian prisoners of war and the return of abducted Ukrainian children.
But he says there's more to do, and calls for decisions on the use of frozen Russian assets.
"The aggressor must pay fully for the war he started," Zelensky tells the parliament.
Hungary's foreign minister Péter Szijjártó urges European leaders to support the 28-point plan, which he says is a "major chance" to end the war in Ukraine.
"Every European politician has a duty to support this plan fully and unconditionally, as this is the rational and humane choice," he says.
He criticises any Western European leader trying to "block" the plan.
Hungary has long resisted EU efforts to pressure Moscow over Ukraine. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used Hungary's heavy dependence on Russian oil and gas to maintain good relations with Moscow, as well as a platform to win re-election next April in Hungary by promising "cheap Russian energy" to voters.
Alexander Stubb visited Donald Trump at the White House in October
Finland's president Alexander Stubb says he welcomes the progress made in the talks in Geneva, after speaking to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.
"The negotiations were a step forward, but there are still major issues which remain to be resolved," he adds.
Stubb adds any decision falling within the remit of the EU or Nato will be discussed and decided by their members separately.
Last week, details of a 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine emerged.
The White House says the plan – discussed by the US and Ukraine in Geneva over the weekend – has been endorsed by President Donald Trump after being drawn up by his officials.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also insists the framework was "authored by the US", though accepts it had been "based on input from the Russian side".
That’s after a group of US senators said Rubio told them that the plan was not an American proposal – that it represented the Russian position and was leaked by Moscow.
European leaders expressed unease at the 28-point plan, saying it was too favourable to Russia, and stressed it would "require additional work".
The BBC has not yet seen the document in full – but here’s a rundown on five things we know were in the initial plan:
It's important to remember, though, that the initial plan is being negotiated, and could change significantly.
The US says that "based on the revisions and clarifications presented" in Geneva, the Ukrainians "believe the current draft reflects their national interests and provides credible and enforceable mechanisms to safeguard Ukraine’s security in both the near and long term". We are yet to see those revisions and clarifications.
US President Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, in August
A former US ambassador to Ukraine has urged Western leaders to put more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
William B Taylor says Putin is trying to "wait out" Ukraine, Europe and the United States, in order to secure a favourable deal for Russia.
"If we hang tough then we can force him to come to the table, but we haven't done that," he tells Radio 4's Today programme.
Taylor adds that the "Putin problem is one President Trump didn't truly appreciate" until now.
A former UK ambassador to Russia has warned that reaching agreement on "security guarantees" for Ukraine is likely to prove difficult.
The initial 28-point peace plan said there would be Western-backed security guarantees for Ukraine, in order to deter future Russian aggression.
But the plan also required Ukraine to commit to not joining Nato – the military alliance of Western nations. It's unclear whether this requirement still remains in place, after German foreign minister Johann Wadephul suggested it had been removed.
The UK's former ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton, says he’s heard that one of the "principal complications" continues to be around those security guarantees for Ukraine.
"The Russians are very suspicious of any sort of guarantee which will amount in their view to Ukraine joining Nato by the back door," he explains.
As we've been reporting, the White House insists that Ukrainian officials believe the draft peace plan "provides credible and enforceable mechanisms to safeguard Ukraine’s security".
The talks between the US and Ukraine in Geneva have produced "decisive success" for Europeans, says the German foreign minister.
Johann Wadephul says issues concerning Europe, including an apparent ban on Ukraine joining Nato, have been removed from the 28-point peace plan.
"This is a decisive success that we achieved yesterday," he tells Germany's public-broadcasting radio station, Deutschlandfunk.
The German foreign minister also reiterated that "any agreement must not be reached over the heads of Europeans and Ukrainians".
As a reminder, we have yet to see the 28-point plan in full – or the "revisions and clarifications" that were, according to the US, agreed on Sunday.
A joint US-Ukraine statement said both sides "agreed to continue intensive work on joint proposals in the coming days"
Overnight, the White House said talks with Ukraine on a peace deal with Russia were "extensive and productive".
In a statement, the US administration said Ukraine’s officials recognised that "all of their principal concerns" – including security guarantees and political sovereignty – had been "thoroughly addressed" during the meeting.
The statement said there had been "revisions and clarifications" to the initial 28-point plan.
"They [Ukrainian officials] believe the current draft reflects their national interests and provides credible and enforceable mechanisms to safeguard Ukraine’s security in both the near and long term," the US said.
"Both sides welcomed the steady progress made and agreed to continue consultations as the agreements move toward final refinement."
The White House statement followed remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who told reporters "tremendous progress" had been made on reaching a peace deal.
As peace talks progressed in Geneva, Russian attacks on Ukraine continued on Sunday.
Russian drones struck the eastern city of Kharkiv, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service.
Four people died with another 17 wounded, according to the city's mayor Igor Terekhov.
"The circumstances are truly horrible when, despite the negotiations, Russian troops are attacking civilian objects, civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, when people are dying – this is horror," Terekhov wrote on Telegram.Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent, reporting from Geneva
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio came out of hours of talks to announce "tremendous progress", as he put it, and insist that there were just "a couple of issues" that would be resolved.
But he wouldn’t go into any details – and other reports suggest European officials have helped Kyiv push back against some key points of his proposed peace deal.
The first draft was so heavily skewed in favour of Russia, Rubio had to confirm that it had been written by Washington and not by the Kremlin.
Ukraine is engaging with this process, because it can’t afford to lose US support – and because Kyiv really does want peace.
But there is one demand on which it can’t compromise: Ukraine needs the US to give the most robust possible security guarantees, so that once this war is over, Russia never dares invade again. And it doesn’t have that yet.
Rubio said he would "love" an agreement to be reached by Thursday, when the US celebrates Thanksgiving, as Donald Trump initially demanded. But he said the new deadline was "as soon as possible".
Jamie Whitehead
Live reporter
Welcome back to our live coverage, after US and Ukrainian negotiators held talks in Geneva on a peace plan to end the war with Russia.
Overnight, the US and Ukraine released a joint statement describing the meeting as "highly productive". A separate report from the White House said "the meeting concluded with a shared understanding that today marked a significant step forward".
The 28-point plan, which emerged last week, has been cautiously welcomed by Russia, but not by leaders in Kyiv and Europe, who see it as too favourable to the Kremlin.
A White House report of the Geneva talks says that "based on the revisions and clarifications presented today," the Ukrainians "believe the current draft reflects their national interests".
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there is "still some work to be done", while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says there are "signals that President [Donald] Trump's team is hearing us".
While the draft of the US-backed plan has not been published in full, major details have leaked in recent days.
This morning we’ll bring you all the reaction to the talks, as well as analysis on what’s happened so far and what could come next.
US (left) and Ukrainian delegations at the beginning of their talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sunday
The head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he is "very optimistic" about talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war after a "very good day" in Geneva.
A Ukrainian delegation has been holding talks with teams from the US and European allies, amid pressure from the White House to agree a 28-point plan which critics have argued would reward Russia for its invasion with territory and other concessions.
Days before the talks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country could face losing either its dignity or US support.
An outburst from President Donald Trump on Sunday – accusing Ukraine of showing "zero gratitude" for US efforts to end the war – suggested the talks were not going well.
Earlier in the day, a group of US senators said they had been told the plan under discussion had been effectively drawn up by Russia – which Rubio denied.
But after a meeting of high-level officials from the US and Ukraine – including Trump's son-in-law and Zelensky's right-hand man – Rubio said he believed substantial progress had been made.
He said some issues remain outstanding – without giving details – but said the US wants a deal done as soon as possible, and suggested an agreement with Ukraine could be made in a matter of days.
Zelensky, posting on social media, was slightly more guarded, welcoming the "reinvigorated" diplomacy and saying there are signals Trump's team "is hearing us".
Despite the positive messaging, our North America correspondent Sean Dilley says the day's talks have been "anything but routine or part of the plan".
Talks are expected to continue tomorrow. We're ending our live coverage now, but you can read more about today's talks here.
Imogen Foulkes
Reporting from Geneva
When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukraine’s chief negotiator Andriy Yermak first came out to talk the press early on Sunday evening, they took no questions, but insisted the talks had gone well.
They promised to come and talk to us again within a couple of hours. While we waited, I nipped out into the freezing Geneva evening for a few minutes (to talk to BBC World Service in fact), and saw, through the window of the room next to the media pen, the entire negotiating team.
Rubio, flanked by US envoy Steve Witkoff and US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.
What I couldn’t see was who was on the other side of that big negotiating table, but we had been told the European delegation (the UK, France, and Germany all sent senior security officials to Geneva) were in the room.
Rubio was animated, gesticulating, and looking, from a distance, a trifle impatient. Oh to be a fly on the wall.
Then that second media briefing arrived – but no Ukraine this time, only the US. Alone, Rubio repeated that progress had been "substantial".
US Secretary of state Marco Rubio, talks to the press
On what exactly, he would not be drawn. Asked about Europe’s involvement, he said he had "walked them through" the US plan, and was "not aware" of any alternative proposals from the EU side.
This despite European leaders making clear that Ukraine’s borders must not be changed by force. The US plan envisages things Europe and Kyiv find deeply dismaying – not just giving territory to Russia, but reducing the size of its armed forces, and abandoning plans to join Nato.
And Rubio appeared to echo his boss President Donald Trump’s desire to get this deal done quickly. It might not be Thursday (the president’s suggestion), but it might be "Friday", "or Wednesday", or "next week". That’s a very short time to agree a genuine, sustainable peace in a complex war that has been raging for almost four years.
Russian media have reacted caustically to the changes in the 28-point peace plan being proposed by Ukraine's European allies.
"EU versus US," wrote Komsomolskaya Pravda war correspondent Alexander Kots on X.
"The EU is sabotaging the negotiations with its peace deal. To Trump's 28 points the Europeans brought 24 of their own. I will not list them all. You just need to look at a few to understand that the plan is stillborn…
"They will set out conditions that are unacceptable from the start which naturally we will reject. They will accuse us of not wanting peace."
The lead story for the Kommersant business newspaper says that Ukraine's European allies "are trying to amend Trump's plan for Ukraine to make it unacceptable for Moscow".
The Moskovsky Komsomolets daily says Trump's plan was received with "perfect hostility in Europe".
"Trump's plan posed a threat to their world order," it writes. "It turns out that Russia too can defend its interests."
A little earlier we brought you remarks from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was speaking to reporters after the latest round of talks with the Ukrainian delegation in Geneva. Here's what we heard:
US and Ukrainian officials are discussing the possibility of Zelensky flying to the US this week, the BBC's US partner CBS News reports, citing multiple US and Ukrainian officials.
The trip would be dependent on the outcome of the ongoing negotiations in Geneva, officials tell CBS.
For context: It's a holiday week in the United States, with Thanksgiving on Thursday.
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