Russia and Ukraine’s top diplomats on Saturday used a high-level conference in Turkey to once again trade accusations of violating a tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause strikes on energy infrastructure,

U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in St. Petersburg about the search for a peace deal on Ukraine as Trump told Russia to "get moving".

The Black Sea ceasefire was discussed in Saudi Arabia during parallel US talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials. Despite Russia entering those talks saying its main objective was to broker such a truce, Kyiv said it was effective immediately once the talks concluded, while Russia sought to impose further conditions on the agreement.