Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to resume trilateral peace talks with Ukraine and the United States. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 This s something no previous administration achieved in nearly five years of this war: Russia agreeing to sit at the same table as Ukraine and the United States. Critics who said Trump was too close to Putin to pressure him, or too confrontational with Zelensky to keep Ukraine engaged, now have to explain how both sides ended up agreeing to sit at the same table at the same time. That is what nearly five years of European diplomacy, sanctions packages, and UN resolutions did not produce.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he would accept ending the war along the current front lines. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Ukrainian President told Fox News that freezing the conflict where it stands is “the real way to end this war.” When host asked him directly whether Zelensky would accept a deal that “freezes everything the way it is right now,” with Ukraine keeping “75 percent or more” of its territory, Zelensky answered “Yes.” He described the approach as “freeze and stop,” language that echoes President Trump’s own framing of the ceasefire as “stop killing.” For years, Zelensky’s position was that every inch of Ukrainian territory — including Crimea. That position has now been replaced, on camera, with acceptance that the war ends where the armies stand. The timing was not accidental.