By Andrew Osborn

MOSCOW, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. envoys on Tuesday yielded no public breakthrough on a potential Ukraine peace deal, with Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov suggesting unsolved “territorial problems” were the main stumbling block.

He was referring to Russian claims on all of Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk, part of which remains in Ukrainian hands nearly four years after Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine and over a decade after a Russia-backed separatist rebellion in Donetsk.

Almost all countries recognise Donetsk as part of Ukraine but it is one of four regions in eastern Ukraine that Moscow said it was annexing in 2022 following referendums dismissed by Kyiv and Western nations as a sham.

U.S. Secretary of

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