Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trumps special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on Tuesday for talks on a possible way to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two Just before the meeting Putin warned Europe that it would face swift defeat if it went to war with Russia and he dismissed European counter-proposals on Ukraine as being absolutely unacceptable to Russia Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the war but his efforts including a summit with Putin in Alaska in August and meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have not brought peace A leaked set of 28 US draft peace proposals emerged last week alarming Ukrainian and European officials who said it bowed to Moscows main demands on NATO Russian control of a fifth of Ukraine and restrictions on Ukraines army European powers then came up with a counter-proposal and at talks in Geneva the United States and Ukraine said they had created an updated and refined peace framework to end the war
