A deal in the desert? US and Ukraine meet ahead of Russia ceasefire talks

"I feel that he (Putin) wants peace," said President Trump's personal envoy Steve Witkoff, adding: "I think that you're going to see in Saudi Arabia on Monday some real progress." Yet Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman has dampened expectations. "We are only at the beginning of this path," he told Russian state TV. Kyiv suffered one of its heaviest attacks from Russian drones on Saturday night, with three people killed, including a five-year-old girl. "We need to push Putin to give a real order to stop the strikes," said Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening address on Sunday.