UK hosts new round of Ukraine talks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff is to visit Moscow this week, the White House has confirmed, in what would be his fourth trip to Russia since Trump took office.
49% : European leaders are also scrambling to work out how to support Ukraine should Trump pull Washington's vital military and financial backing. lb/pdh/tw More from this section The Latest: Pope Francis lies in state ahead of his funeral, set for Saturday Class Valuation expands sales leadership with industry veterans Jim Bannister and Scott Shaw Jury begins deliberating in Lori Vallow Daybell's trial on charge she conspired to kill her husband
48% : The White House welcomed a separate agreement by both sides to halt attacks on energy infrastructure for 30 days, but the Kremlin has said it considers this moratorium to have expired.
40% : Trump "wants to see this war end, and he wants to stop the killing on both sides of this war, and he's been very clear about that for quite some time, and he has grown frustrated with both sides of this war, and he's made that very known," his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. - 'Long-term' - UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy will lead Wednesday's discussions, which will be at a lower level than Paris.
38% : After the Paris talks, Rubio and Trump have warned that the United States could walk away from peace talks unless it saw quick progress.
33% : Trump said at the weekend that he hoped an agreement could be struck "this week" despite no sign of the two sides coming close to a ceasefire, let alone a wider long-term settlement.
33% : Trump proposed an unconditional ceasefire in March, the principle of which was accepted by Kyiv but rejected by Putin.
30% : Trump promised on the campaign trail to strike a deal between Moscow and Kyiv in 24 hours but has since failed to secure concessions from Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt his troops in Ukraine.
27% : Trump has since threatened to "take a pass" on efforts to end the conflict unless progress is quickly made.

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