MOSCOW: A top Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that the impetus to find a peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine which emerged after a summit between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump in August had proven to be largely exhausted. Trump and Putin met at a Cold War-era air force base in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15 in an attempt to end the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two.

MOSCOW: A top Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that the impetus to find a peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine which emerged after a summit between President Vladimir Putin…

According to Sergey Ryabkov, the powerful momentum has largely been undermined through efforts by opponents and efforts by supporters of 'war till the last Ukrainian', mostly…

Senior official Sergey Ryabkov says 'momentum generated' from the Trump-Putin summit has 'largely been undermined'.

Dmitry Peskov noted that President Trump retains the political will for peaceful settlement