Vladimir Putin has delivered a stinging rejection of Donald Trump ’s latest attempt to broker a Ukraine peace deal, despite a five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between the Russian leader, Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner. When asked by reporters whether peace was now closer or further away following the late-night talks, Yuri Ushakov, a senior adviser to Putin, offered a damningly minimalist five-word response: “Not further, that’s for sure.”

The response, which Ushakov quickly tempered with the observation that the conversation had been “rather useful,constructive, rather substantive,” confirmed that a compromise on core issues remains out of reach. In a frustrating development for the Trump administration, the Russian aide stated that the Kremlin currently

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