Ukraine delivered its response to the latest US-drafted peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia to the Trump administration on Wednesday, US and Ukrainian officials told CNN, as the contours of a tenuous potential deal take shape and the US president continues to make clear he wants the conflict resolved quickly.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, in an interview made public in part on Tuesday, called for swift action to end the conflict in Ukraine while the United States remained engaged in diplomatic efforts.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with Trump administration negotiators in Berlin Monday for continued talks on how to end war between Russia and Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and 34 other countries have formally approved plans to create a compensation body for damages caused by Russia's invasion.

After a brutal 3½-year grind, the war in Ukraine has arrived at a delicate moment. On the battlefield, the Russians continue to advance, though at a pace that would take them over 114 years, at a cost of 44 million additional casualties, to conquer the entire country.

Two days of talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky and allies have brought some progress on security guarantees, but Russia remains opposed to any foreign forces in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is aware of declining support from some European states and stresses that there is no alternative to a decision on Russia's frozen assets. Source: Zelenskyy at a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in The Hague,

U.S. President Donald Trump's August summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, is looming large as the White House presses its latest effort to secure a peace deal ending Moscow's full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.