There may have been progress toward a Ukraine peace deal over the weekend, but there’s still a great deal of uncertainty this morning. President Trump has been pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign off,

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

As diplomats wrestle with core elements of peace in Ukraine, one element of the draft deal has gone largely overlooked: sweeteners based on an imagined blossoming of US-Russia business.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, a staunch supporter of Ukraine, has warned the proposal to end the war with Russia could come with consequences.

The leaked plan, which has since been revised to 19 points, initially demanded Ukraine make heavy concessions – including giving up territory in the east, capping the size of its military and agreeing to never join NATO – while asking Russia to barely give up anything.

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kirill Dmitriev has taken a leading role in talks with the U.S. about the Ukraine war and has met with special envoy Steve Witkoff several times this year.

Ukraine talks in Geneva, President Zelensky says: "Putin wants legal recognition to what he has stolen...that's the main problem."

As U.S. and European officials tout progress in Ukraine peace talks, Zelenskyy says a key sticking point is letting Putin keep "what he has stolen."

Just weeks before a scheduled sit-down with President Donald Trump to end the Ukraine war, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin survived a secret Kremlin attempt to take him out with a deadly nerve toxin, intelligence sources told RadarOnline.com in an explosive world exclusive.