Russia confirmed contact with the Trump administration after receiving US-backed peace proposals on Ukraine, as Moscow analysed the ideas and agreed to continue dialogue while Kyiv prepared further talks.

After Trump's envoys held three days of talks between Ukrainian and Russian representatives in Miami, alongside French, German and British emissaries, the negotiations once again stalled over territorial issues.

The Russian envoy said that talks with the US were supposedly underway to resume air travel between the countries and active discussions were underway about joint activities in the Arctic, as well as the restoration of religious and cultural relations between the countries. "The process of dialogue is positive and constructive," the Kremlin envoy concluded. Read more: Officer Dmitriev: how a ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed the U.S. agrees with the Kremlin that Ukraine should hand over control of land where ethnic Russians live to Moscow. “It is good that the Americans have understood this,” Lavrov told Russian television in a new interview published Tuesday, originally in Russian.

Despite the complexities posed by Russia-Ukraine crisis, United States has been taking conscious steps to improve commercial relations