Top US negotiators vying to end the war in Ukraine met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in high-stakes talks happening as Moscow pressed battlefield advances.

Putin, who received US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin, signalled earlier that his forces were ready to fight on to achieve Russia's initial war goals.

The meeting is a crucial moment for Ukraine in what could be a fraught week following days of frantic diplomacy. At the heart of it is a unilateral US plan to bring peace, which has since been revised under pressure from Kyiv and its European backers.

Trump said progress on ending the nearly four-year-long war would not be easy.

"Our people are over in Russia right now to see if we can get it settled,

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