The three-way talks come hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement in Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys during marathon overnight talks. The Kremlin insisted that to reach a peace deal, Kyiv must withdraw its troops from the areas in the east that Russia illegally annexed but never fully captured.

This is Kollen Post reporting from Kyiv on day 1,433 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: 'First time since the second world war' – Russia's air attack damages Kyiv's holiest site Russia's Jan.

Russia carried out its most extensive overnight aerial assault on Ukraine this year, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday (local time), striking major cities just hours after Kyiv, Moscow and Washington concluded the first known trilateral negotiations since the war began in 2022.