Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he expected to discuss "key issues" with Donald Trump as the American-led push to end Russia's war on Ukraine accelerated, with the US president's envoy heading to Moscow.

Ukraine's negotiator Rustem Umerov said "significant progress" had been achieved in two days of talks with US officials on Trump's plan to end the war, even though more work was needed on "challenging" issues.

The comments came as US envoy Steve Witkoff was due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of diplomacy to halt the conflict.

Zelensky spoke after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris as he sounded out European allies on Washington's blueprint, which was drafted without input from Kyiv or Europe and has

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