After two hours of talks in Geneva on Wednesday, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, said negotiations had been “difficult but businesslike.”

U.S.-brokered talks between Russian and Ukrainian envoys are continuing in Geneva, with both sides apparently still far apart on peace terms

Ukrainian firefighters search through the rubble after Russian attacks on residential areas of the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy Russian and Ukrainian delegations have ended the first day of US-brokered peace talks in Geneva,

The latest U.S.-brokered talks between Russian and Ukrainian envoys over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine ended Wednesday with no sign of a breakthrough and with both sides saying the talks were “difficult” as the war’s fourth anniversary approaches next week.

Ukraine has faced repeated pressure from ​U.S. President Donald Trump to agree to a deal that could mean painful concessions, as Russian forces pound its power grid and slowly advance on the battlefield.

Trump pointed to Ukraine when asked what he was expecting from Tuesday's talks. Kyiv “better come to the table fast,” he told reporters on Air Force One.

Russia's chief negotiator told reporters that further negotiations would be held soon, without specifying a date.

Ukraine and Russia made some progress at US-mediated talks in Geneva, but did not find a compromise on the key issue of territory, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday.