03 Dec 2025
Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposed US peace deal after talks in Moscow failed to produce any breakthrough in efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
The Russian president met Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin on Tuesday for a marathon session aimed at halting the conflict following weeks of US-led negotiations.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said after five hours of talks that “no compromise” had been reached on the central issue of Ukraine’s territory, leaving both sides “neither further nor closer to resolving the crisis”.
“So far we haven’t found a compromise, but some American solutions can be discussed,” he said.
Mr Kushner and Mr Witkoff are understood to have presented Putin with a revised US peace proposal, after the initial version alarmed Kyiv and several European capitals for appearing to grant significant concessions to Moscow.
Putin continues to demand that Ukraine cede territory Russia claims as its own, including full ownership of the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the Kremlin also rejects any European peacekeeping presence on Ukrainian soil.
“There were some points we could agree on,” Mr Ushakov said, while stressing that “the president did not hide our critical, even negative, stance on a number of proposals.”
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said he may meet US representatives soon to receive a detailed briefing on the talks.
Germany: Putin yet to show any sign he’s willing to negotiate for peace in Ukraine
James Rothwell in Berlin
Vladimir Putin is yet to show any signs that he is willing to negotiate for peace in Ukraine, Germany’s foreign minister has warned.
As he travelled to Brussels for a meeting of Nato foreign ministers, Johann Wadepul suggested that Putin was still determined to continue the war.
“As the diplomatic channels are buzzing with activity to pave the way for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, we must not lose sight of an uncomfortable truth,” he said. “Putin started the war in Ukraine – and he can end it at any time. He has yet to show any real willingness to negotiate.”
Mr Wadephul also warned that Putin was trying to “test our defence capabilities and weaken our alliance.” But he insisted: “He will not succeed.”
Kremlin: It’s wrong to say Putin rejected US peace plan
Vladimir Putin is ready to meet US negotiators as many times as it takes to reach an agreement, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, told reporters on Wednesday it would be wrong to say that Putin had rejected the US proposals, noting that the meeting was a first face-to-face exchange of opinions on them.
It comes after talks in Moscow between Putin and Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, and son-in-law Jared Kushner went into the early hours of Wednesday morning, with a Kremlin aide later saying that “compromises have not yet been found.”
Two people killed by Russian strikes on eastern Ukraine
Two people were killed and three people were injured by a Russian overnight attack in the eastern region of Dnipro, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Wednesday.
According to Ukraine’s air force, Russia launched 111 drones overnight. Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Odessa were the most heavily affected regions.
Nato: Ukraine must be in strongest possible position in peace talks
Nato’s secretary general on Wednesday said it was good that peace talks to end the war in Ukraine were ongoing, but that it was necessary to make sure Kyiv was in the strongest possible position.
Mark Rutte, who is currently hosting the alliance’s foreign ministers for talks in Brussels, said Ukraine must have a “[seat] at the table” to “fight back against the Russians”.
Nato member states have argued any decision concerning the alliance raised in peace talks between the US and Russia can’t be finalised without their wider permission.
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, has not travelled to the Belgian capital to join the meeting.
Instead, he has dispatched Christopher Landau, his deputy, who earlier this year criticised Nato as “a solution in search of a problem” in a now-deleted social media post.
Russia sees ‘no point in making any serious compromises’
Russia feels “absolutely confident on the battlefield” and sees “no point in making any serious compromises,” according to local news reports.
The Kremlin added that Washington clearly has a “limit” on what it’s willing to concede to Moscow, according to reports from Pravda, a pro-Putin Russian paper.
It comes hours after talks between Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff failed to make a breakthrough at the Kremlin on Tuesday.
Streeting: Putin’s threat of war with Europe is ‘same old sabre rattling’
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russia is “ready” for war with Europe as “the same old sabre rattling.”
It came after the Russian leader rejected amendments proposed by Ukraine and Europe to a US-backed peace plan as unacceptable, saying if Europe “wants to wage a war with us and starts it, we are ready right away”.
Asked if the UK is ready for a war with Russia, Mr Streeting told Sky News: “I think we should see this for what it is, which is the same old sabre rattling we’ve heard from President Putin.
“And the the irony of President Putin talking about warmongering on the part of European leaders would be laughable if what he’s doing in Ukraine weren’t so serious.”
He stressed that the UK “take[s] the threat from Russia seriously”.
Zelensky: ‘There will be no simple solutions to ending this war’
Europe must make decisions on Russia’s frozen assets as Ukraine negotiates territories and security guarantees, the Ukrainian President said.
Volodymyr Zelensky said he also expects strong security guarantees from the US and Europe.
“The most sensitive things and the most difficult questions are about territories, about frozen assets,” he wrote on X.
“I can’t speak on behalf of European leaders about frozen money in Europe. I can only share my view, and they can support me.”
Trump on Ukraine: ‘What a mess’
Donald Trump said progress on ending the nearly four-year-long war in Ukraine would not be easy.
“Our people are over in Russia right now to see if we can get it settled,” he said during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
“Not an easy situation, let me tell you. What a mess.”
In a post on social media, Volodymyr Zelensky said: “the most difficult questions are about territories, about frozen [Russian] assets … And about security guarantees.”
The putrefying Krasnov regime has now stained all of America with the blood of Ukrainian children.
Ideologically the regime has inextricably linked itself to putlerstan and its European satellites : Belarus, Hungary and Slovakia.
In party politics it’s AfD and the Italian fascists.
Krasnov is golf buddies with President Stubb of Finland. But that friendship can’t progress unless Stubb flips to putler.
In the UK I thought that Farage-Krasnov was rock solid, but events have suggested changes coming. Farage’s party chairman has come out as a Ukraine supporter and Farage himself slammed the trumputler “peace deal.”
This could be a precursor to a Tory-Reform electoral pact. *
As we expect, this latest Witless shitshow produced nothing.
Krasnov could decide to walk away, abandon US-Ukr intel sharing, compromise the command and control systems of Storms and ATACM’s and become a full component of the putler genocide by expediting business deals designed to enrich the putler murder gang.
He’s already teeing himself up to put the blame on Ukraine.
On top of that, putler is preparing to legislate for 1.5 million reserves to enter the orc army.
Despite opposite predictions, the chicomZ and the ModinaZis will not be abandoning putler.
If they want to rid civilisation of the scourge of putinaZism, the European military powers will have to stop bullshitting about “peacekeepers”, form a coalition and send troops and air power to help Ukraine drive the orcs out.
*Without a Tory-Reform pact, we could face the possibility of a horrifying socialist coalition of Labour, the LibDems, the Greens and the SNP!
“Instead, he has dispatched Christopher Landau, his deputy, who earlier this year criticised Nato as “a solution in search of a problem” in a now-deleted social media post.”
Wanker.
Comment from :
Not Manichean
The only way to end the war is defeat the Russians, eject them from Ukrainian territory and wait for Putin to fall.
In order to do that it is the responsibility of every democratic nation to provide complete and unqualified support.
Jas Dad
Putin does not want peace, he wants Ukraine to surrender. Putin is happy to send his people into the war meat grinder as he only loves himself. Without a show of force against Putin by NATO then this war will run and run.
Ftang Ftang
Any peace agreement signed by Russia would last only until their next invasion plan.
John Doe
When Kushner is involved you know they were only discussing Trump and friends picking up lucrative oil and gas contracts and Russian state assets on the cheap. Anyone thinking Kushner was there to discuss Geo-politics or a peace deal I have a bridge to sell you!
Peter Hearn
Time to launch a massive conventional strike on Russia. Blow that bridge to pieces that serves the Crimea, and smash their forces back. Failure to do this condemns Europe to decades of uncertainty, and emboldens China to take Taiwan which would be economically and politically disastrous.
Man up!
Artemus Prime
When will the penny drop… Putain is just stringing everybody along as he watches western ‘leaders’ get fed-up and lose interest in Ukraine. It has no intention of meaningful negotiation.
Brewer Gee
Should’ve put the Russians back in their box after WW2 when we had the bomb and they didn’t. They were an utter disgrace in WW2, were quite happy to play along carving up Europe with Hitler, until he attacked them, Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler, and then they took advantage of the mess Europe was in by keeping the lands they had liberated from the Germans, so hardly liberation.
Peter Wheeldon
It is so blindingly obvious what is happening here. Putin is using the peace talks to obfuscate and throw smoke, destabilising Ukrainian support whilst not moving one iota fril their maximalist demands and grinding onwards very slowly in ukraine. This isn’t even a new playbook…its exactly what the soviets always did.
Have we learned nothing?
Lilian Smith
Russia needs to be told by Trump get out of Ukraine or else we will do it. That is the only language he understands. Surely the UN can call for a motion on a majority basis to implement this action—- thou shall not invade a fellow recognised country.
William Heathdale
Is Trump now going to turn the screws on Putin or try to pressure Ukraine into surrendering more territory? Sadly, it will probably the latter, as he seems to be beholden to Putin.
IN SHORT: PUTIN REJECTED THE PUTIN ‘PEACE PLAN’……………..HAHAHA
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There was never any peace plan.