Putin agrees to resume negotiations with US and Ukraine next month

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The Russian leader has agreed “in principle” to resume the talks after November 10, Mr Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters following a meeting in St Petersburg between Mr Putin and US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff.

The talks will focus on “building a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the conflict ends,” Mr Ushakov said.

Mr Witkoff’s talks with the Russian President about Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine took place as Mr Trump pushed Kiev to make a deal that stops the fighting.

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

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.

However, little progress was reported beyond exchanges of prisoners of war as Moscow and Kiev stuck to their basic demands.

Meanwhile, overnight Russian attacks in Kiev left three people dead and 12 injured, while 10 residential buildings were damaged, the city’s military administration said today.

Energy facilities were targeted in Kiev and three other cities in Russian attacks early today, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said.

Outside the eastern city of Kharkiv, two people died and 11 were wounded when drones exploded in a residential area, he said.

The Russian Defence Ministry said that its forces overnight struck a warehouse, an electrical substation and a bulk carrier at sea that was headed to the Ukrainian port of Odessa.

The Russian Defence Ministry reported yesterday that its air defences overnight intercepted 373 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions, as well as illegally annexed Crimea and the Black Sea.