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Ukraine peace talks pushed back as Washington juggles Iran crisis
The three sides last convened a week ago, and the Ukrainian leader stressed that he remains “ready to work in all formats” to pursue a breakthrough toward ending the war.
Meanwhile, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff held what he described as “productive and constructive” discussions in Florida with Kremlin representative Kirill Dmitriev.
Witkoff said the fate of Donbas remains a central sticking point, with Kyiv continuing to reject Moscow’s demands that it relinquish control of the territory.
Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, were restoring electricity to capital and other areas of the country after emergency power outages on Saturday swept across several Ukrainian cities as well as neighboring Moldova, officials said. Ukraine’s Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said the outages were due to a technical malfunction affecting power lines linking Ukraine and Moldova.
The failure “caused a cascading outage in Ukraine’s power grid,” triggering automatic protection systems, Shmyhal said.