Zelenskyy says US has set June deadline for Ukraine-Russia peace deal

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the US has given Ukraine and Russia another deadline to reach a peace settlement, proposing the war should end by June. He told reporters that both sides had been invited to further talks next week. Zelenskyy said the Trump administration "will probably put pressure" on both countries to meet the deadline.

"They say they want to get everything done by June," he added, and "They will do everything to end the war and they want a clear schedule of all events." Before Donald Trump took office, he promised to "end the war in 24 hours", and his special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, suggested both sides could reach an agreement within 100 days.

Subsequent deadlines — for August last year and a draft described as nearly "95% done" in December — also passed without a peace deal. Two days of US-led peace talks in Abu Dhabi this week did not produce a breakthrough, although Kyrylo Budanov said the trilateral negotiations had been "genuinely constructive".

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