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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday. Reuters-Yonhap<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said.<\/p>\n

The Russian leader has agreed \u201cin principle\u201d to resume the talks after Nov. 10, Putin\u2019s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters following a meeting in St. Petersburg between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s envoy Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n

The talks will focus on \u201cbuilding a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the conflict ends,\u201d Ushakov said.<\/p>\n

Witkoff’s talks with Putin about Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine took place as Trump pushed Kyiv to make a deal that stops the fighting.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has insisted that only a summit of leaders can break the impasse. The two armies remain locked on the battlefield, and the two countries pummel each other with daily long-range strikes.<\/p>\n

Representatives of the three countries held three rounds of negotiations early this year, meeting twice in Abu Dhabi in January and February, followed by further talks in Geneva in February.<\/p>\n

However, little progress was reported beyond exchanges of prisoners of war as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their basic demands.<\/p>\n

Latest proposals to end the war have little of value, Kremlin says<\/strong><\/p>\n

The discussion in St. Petersburg lasted about three hours, the Kremlin said, and came a day after Witkoff met with Zelenskyy and some European leaders in Norway’s capital, Oslo.<\/p>\n

The proposals from the Oslo meeting \u201ccontained little of real value in the context of resolving the Ukrainian crisis,\u201d Ushakov said.<\/p>\n

However, he later told Russian state TV that while Moscow isn\u2019t \u201cfully satisfied\u201d with the Oslo proposals, they are a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Witkoff\u2019s meetings suggested leaders are keen to bring new momentum to U.S.-led peace efforts, more than 4\u00bd years after the war began. Efforts by the Trump administration since early last year to end the war have made no significant progress.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said freezing the conflict in Ukraine was the \u201cminimum\u201d required from Russia to bring about an end to the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we have to freeze, and I think this is (the) real way to end this war,\u201d Zelenskyy said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on Fox News.<\/p>\n

Witkoff sees \u2018some degree of momentum\u2019 in peace efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Witkoff and Putin met at St. Petersburg\u2019s Constantine Palace, with Ushakov and Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev also at the table. Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, joined the discussion via a video link, Ushakov said.<\/p>\n

Before the meeting, Witkoff said that \u201cthere is some degree of momentum\u201d in talks.<\/p>\n

He thanked Putin for agreeing to send diesel to the U.S., after Trump lifted a ban despite anger from some U.S. lawmakers, adding that the fuel would help reduce prices for American farmers and truckers.<\/p>\n

Putin said he was ready to consider prospects for the restoration of U.S.-Russia economic ties, adding that he was also prepared to discuss the U.S.-led conflict with Iran. Moscow stands ready to use its relationship with Tehran to help bring peace, he said.<\/p>\n

Ushakov said that \u201clarge-scale joint economic projects that offer significant prospects for cooperation\u201d between Russia and the U.S. were discussed in detail with Witkoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of these are, in fact, nearing the implementation stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In other developments, Russia on Wednesday released a retired American teacher who had been imprisoned on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. Witkoff said it appeared to be a goodwill gesture by the Kremlin after Trump asked Putin to free Stephen Hubbard.<\/p>\n

Putin also met Wednesday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who was in St. Petersburg for talks with other Russian officials, the Kremlin said.<\/p>\n

Russia has cultivated its ties with China, and the two countries last month vetoed a U.S. proposal for U.N. experts to keep monitoring sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n

Putin and Witkoff also discussed a possible meeting next month between the Russian, Chinese and U.S. leaders at an economic summit in China, Ushakov said, adding that Beijing is already preparing for it.<\/p>\n

Norway’s prime minister sees a possible \u2018new phase\u2019 in talks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Witkoff planned to return to Oslo for more consultations after his trip to Russia, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we may have entered a phase now where the Russians are also looking for opportunities for diplomacy,\u201d St\u00f8re told Norwegian broadcaster NRK on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy was still in Oslo early Wednesday, where he visited Norway’s parliament and met with lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said the talks in Oslo and St. Petersburg included discussion of future security guarantees for Ukraine, the fate of occupied territories, postwar reconstruction and the possibility of a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Trump presses Zelenskyy to compromise<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the White House on Tuesday, Trump increased the pressure on Zelenskyy to come to an agreement with Russia as relations between the two leaders have soured again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want Zelenskyy to make a deal,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cWe\u2019ve given a lot to Ukraine. We\u2019ve gotten absolutely nothing back except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

If that doesn\u2019t happen, \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a very bad thing,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Amid fears that Washington was turning its back on Ukraine, Zelenskyy said Kyiv is once again receiving early warnings from its partners about incoming Russian missiles, after recent strikes that he said occurred without enough notice from allies.<\/p>\n

Russian attacks kill 5 people and wound at least 23 others, Ukraine says<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overnight Russian attacks in Kyiv left three people dead and 12 wounded, while 10 residential buildings were damaged, the city\u2019s military administration said.<\/p>\n

Energy facilities were targeted in Kyiv and three other cities in Russian attacks early Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said. Outside the eastern city of Kharkiv, two people died and 11 others were wounded when drones exploded in a residential area, he said.<\/p>\n

The Russian Defense Ministry said that overnight its forces struck a warehouse, an electrical substation and a bulk carrier at sea that was headed to the Ukrainian port of Odesa.<\/p>\n

The Russian Defense Ministry reported Wednesday that its air defenses intercepted 373 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions overnight, as well as the illegally annexed Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

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