'Putin can't live without…': Zelensky risks peace talks just after US-Ukraine meet on Russia deal?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his negotiators have returned from talks with U.S. envoys for President Donald Trump and will brief him on a draft “basic framework” built around 20 key points and new security‑guarantee documents for Ukraine. He stresses that the next step is whether Washington can extract from Russia any “genuine willingness” to focus on something other than aggression, while openly doubting that Vladimir Putin can live “without killings and invasions” after years of hybrid and full‑scale war.