Responding to Vladimir Putin's claims that Russia is "ready" for war with Europe, Keir Starmer's spokesman says Putin "isn't serious about peace".

Witkoff, the man whom Washington has sent to negotiate with Putin this week, is viewed with suspicion by Kyiv and its allies after a leaked phone call suggested he was advising Moscow on how to deal with Trump, according to a transcript published by Bloomberg News.

Negotiations at the Kremlin between U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted over four hours.

Yuri Ushakov said the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff was "very useful," but that no "compromise option has not yet been found."

Russian President Vladimir Putin is showing no signs of compromise, the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg says. It comes after Russian officials said "no compromise" was reached during five hours of talks between Putin and US envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday.

Ukraine and its European allies have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough.

On 5, Bloomberg published transcripts of two phone calls involving Yuri Ushakov, a top aide to the Russian president — one with Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and another with Vladimir Putin’s special envoy,

European officials, who have not been briefed on the talks, said at a NATO meeting in Brussels that Russia appears to be inflexible in the negotiations.