{"id":29088,"date":"2025-11-27T03:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29088"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:05:40","slug":"russia-says-talks-on-ending-ukraine-war-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29088","title":{"rendered":"Russia says talks on ending Ukraine war \u2018serious\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russia said Wednesday that ongoing talks to end the war in Ukraine were \u201cserious\u201d, after earlier welcoming parts of a new US plan to halt the deadliest fighting in Europe since World War II.<br \/>\nA deal was still a long way off, Russian officials warned, with US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoy Steve Witkoff due in Moscow next week for further talks.<br \/>\nBut the negotiations were \u201congoing, the process is serious,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in televised comments.<br \/>\nWashington has not published its new plan, which Trump has called a \u201cfine-tuned\u201d update of a previous 28-point proposal firmly rejected by an alarmed Kyiv and its European allies for being, they said, a Kremlin wish-list.<br \/>\nIn comments to a Russian state TV reporter, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said the draft required \u201ctruly serious analysis\u201d and that Russia had not yet discussed it with anyone.<br \/>\n\u201cSome aspects can be viewed positively, but many require special discussions among experts,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nMiles away from the talks on ending nearly four years of war with Russia, problems have mounted for Ukraine where they matter most \u2014\u00a0at the front, according to soldiers and analysts.<br \/>\nThe Donbas industrial and mining area, comprising the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, is the Kremlin\u2019s primary target.<br \/>\nAnd after nearly four years of invasion, Russia \u2014\u00a0which occupies around one-fifth of Ukraine\u2019s territory \u2014\u00a0has never been closer to that goal.<br \/>\n\u201cI can\u2019t remember the enemy advancing at such a speed for a long time,\u201d Maksym Zhorin, an officer in the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps said on Telegram.<br \/>\n\u201cThe situation is only getting worse,\u201d he warned.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia said Wednesday that ongoing talks to end the war in Ukraine were \u201cserious\u201d, after earlier welcoming parts of a new US plan to halt the deadliest fighting in Europe since World War II. A deal was still a long way off, Russian officials warned, with US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoy Steve Witkoff due in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}