Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Russian President Vladimir Putin says he reached ‘understandings’ with US President Donald Trump over the end of the Ukraine war at their meeting in Alaska last month. But he did not say whether he would agree to peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky brokered by Trump, who had apparently given Monday as a deadline for Putin’s response. Speaking during a summit in China, Putin continued to defend his decision to invade Ukraine, once again blaming the West for the war.” (09/01/25)