Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says newest peace talks with U.S. negotiators have been optimistic

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Thursday that he spoke with U.S. particular envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner for "practically an hour" about learn how to finish the warfare with Russia.

"It was a very good dialog: we went into many particulars; there are good concepts, which we mentioned," Zelenskyy mentioned on the Telegram app. "We have now some new concepts by way of codecs, conferences, and, after all, timing on learn how to carry an actual peace deal nearer."

Zelenskyy mentioned Ukrainian defence minister Rusten Umerov will proceed discussions with the U.S. staff later Thursday, including there's nonetheless work to be executed on "delicate points" and the weeks forward could also be "intensive."

Russian International Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, in the meantime, mentioned Thursday that Russia sees "sluggish however regular progress" in peace talks with the U.S. on Ukraine.

Zakharova mentioned Western European powers have been attempting to torpedo the progress and steered that the U.S. counter such strikes.

Ukraine strikes Russian oil and gasoline amenities Ukrainian navy and safety officers mentioned on Thursday that Ukraine launched British Storm Shadow missiles and its domestically produced long-range drones to hit a number of Russian oil and gasoline amenities.

Ukraine has beforehand used the British-made missiles to assault Russian industrial targets that it says assist Moscow's warfare.

The Ukrainian Basic Employees mentioned that the air drive used Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia's Rostov area.

"A number of explosions have been recorded. The goal was hit," the Basic Employees mentioned on Telegram Thursday.

It mentioned the refinery was one of many largest oil product suppliers in southern Russia and was supplying diesel and jet gas to the Russian troops combating in Ukraine.

Ukraine's SBU safety service mentioned the regionally made long-range drones hit oil product tanks within the Russian port of Temryuk within the Krasnodar area and a gasoline processing plant in Orenburg in southwestern Russia.

The Orenburg gasoline processing plant, the most important facility of its sort on the planet, is positioned about 1,400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy laid out a 20-point peace plan that negotiators from Ukraine and the U.S. broadly hammered out not too long ago. Zelenskyy conceded he can be open to creating the Donetsk area a demilitarized, free financial zone monitored by worldwide forces. Within the Krasnodar area, Russian regional authorities mentioned that two oil product tanks caught hearth on the southern port of Temryuk after the drone assault.

Flames lined an space of about 2,000 sq. metres, authorities on the Krasnodar operational headquarters mentioned on Telegram.

As Russia's warfare in Ukraine approaches its four-year mark and diplomatic efforts to finish it have to this point failed to supply any tangible outcomes, each Kyiv and Moscow have stepped up their drone and missile assaults on vitality amenities.

Kyiv has elevated its strikes on Russia's oil refineries and different vitality infrastructure since August because it seeks to chop Moscow's oil revenues, a key supply of funding for its warfare effort.