Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly rejected key elements of the U.S.-backed proposal to end the war in Ukraine, as senior Kremlin officials escalate warnings toward Europe over efforts to use frozen Russian assets to support Kyiv.
According to The Associated Press, Putin said there were parts of the American proposal he „can’t accept,“ including requirements for Russia to withdraw from occupied Ukrainian territory. His comments came as diplomatic activity intensified following meetings in Geneva and Florida between Ukrainian representatives and U.S. administration envoys.
A senior U.S. official, speaking on background, told Fox News Digital in response to the latest reports that the United States and Russia „participated in a thorough, productive meeting earlier this week.“ The official said that „several new ideas of how to bridge the remaining issues have been developed over the past week and continue to be discussed by all parties,“ adding that Special Envoy Witkoff and Jared Kushner have since briefed President Trump and Ukrainian officials and are expected to meet with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov today.
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The latest development comes after more lethal strikes hit Ukraine overnight, when Russian forces killed a 6-year-old girl in Kherson, officials said.
The Russian Defense Ministry boasted of footage showing how they were relentlessly pounding Huliaipole with Grad rockets. At least six people were injured in a Russian drone attack on Odesa, which damaged the city’s energy infrastructure, East2West news agency reported. Six more people were wounded from a Russian strike on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But Ukrainian drones attacked Nevinnomyssk Azot, a key supplier of explosives and rocket fuel components.
Former Russian President and Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev warned that if the European Union uses frozen Russian state assets to provide financial support to Ukraine, Moscow could treat the move as a justification for war, Reuters reported.
„If the crazed European Union attempts to steal Russian assets, blocked in Belgium, by issuing so-called reparative loans, such actions under international law may be classified as a special kind of casus belli with all the ensuing consequences for Brussels and individual EU countries,“ Medvedev said. He added that repayment could come „not through court, but through actual reparations paid in natural form by the defeated enemies of Russia.“
Reuters noted that EU leaders are considering ways to leverage roughly €190 billion, about $221.8 billion, in frozen Russian sovereign assets to help fund Ukraine’s budget and military needs. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this week that Europe intends to ensure Ukraine „has the means“ to defend itself, proposing support totaling about €90 billion, about $105.1 billion, over the next two years.
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„We are increasing the cost of Russia’s war of aggression,“ von der Leyen said. She added that raising pressure on Moscow should help bring Putin to negotiations, even as Russia signals it is not ready to compromise.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded publicly to the diplomatic momentum, writing on X that Ukraine is preparing additional meetings with American envoys. „Ukraine was heard, and Ukraine was listened to. And that matters,“ Zelenskyy wrote. „A dignified peace is only possible if Ukraine’s interests are taken into account.“
He added that any peace effort must combine diplomacy with continued pressure on Moscow. „Everything depends on this combination — constructive diplomacy plus pressure on the aggressor.“
Russia, meanwhile, has continued military operations across Ukraine, according to Associated Press reporting, as both sides prepare for additional negotiations in the United States.
Putin’s rejection of the plan and Medvedev’s warnings to Europe highlight widening diplomatic and military pressure points just as international efforts intensify to find an exit path from the nearly three-year war.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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