As Trump aides, Ukrainian negotiatior prepare to meet in Miami, Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in US proposal to end war

AP Russian President Vladimir Putin says that selected proposals in a U S plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin indicating that any deal is still particular way off despite intense shuttle diplomacy by American envoys U S President Donald Trump has set in motion the the greater part intense diplomatic push to stop the fighting since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor nearly four years ago But the peace efforts have once again run into demands that are hard to reconcile especially over whether Ukraine must give up land to Russia and how it can be kept safe from any future Russian aggression Putin reported in comments published Thursday that his five-hour talks with U S envoys this week were necessary and useful but also demanding work Various of the proposals were unacceptable to the Kremlin he declared Meanwhile Trump s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to meet with Ukraine s lead negotiator Rustem Umerov on Thursday in Miami for further talks according to a senior Trump administration official who wasn t authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity Putin spoke to the India Currently TV channel before his visit to New Delhi on Thursday Before the full interview was broadcast Russian state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti quoted various of Putin s remarks in it Tass quoted Putin as saying in the interview that at the talks in the Kremlin on Tuesday the sides had to go through each point of the U S peace proposal which is why it took so long This was a necessary conversation a very concrete one the Russian president announced There were provisions that Moscow reported it was ready to discuss while others we can t agree to Putin declared adding it s laborious work Trump stated Wednesday that Witkoff and Kushner came away from their marathon session confident that he wants to find an end to the war Their impression was very strongly that he d like to make a deal Trump disclosed Putin refused to go into details as to what Russia could agree to and what it finds unacceptable None of the representatives involved in the negotiations has offered details of the talks I think it is premature Because it could solely disrupt the working regime of the peace effort Tass quoted Putin as saying European leaders left on the sidelines by Washington as U S representatives engage directly with Moscow and Kyiv have accused Putin of feigning interest in Trump s peace drive Russian barrages of civilian areas of Ukraine continued overnight into Thursday A ballistic missile struck Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday night wounding six people including a -year-old girl according to city administration head Oleksandr Vilkul He disclosed that the strike damaged more than residential buildings a school and domestic gas pipes in the city which is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s hometown A -year-old girl died in Kherson a southern port city after Russian artillery shelling wounded her the previous day Doctors fought until the very end to save her life but her injuries were too severe regional military administration chief Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram Russia also struck Odesa with drones wounding six people while civilian and strength infrastructure was damaged declared Oleh Kiper the head of the regional military administration Overall Russia fired two ballistic missiles and drones of various types at Ukraine overnight bureaucrats commented Meanwhile in the Russia-occupied part of Ukraine s Kherson region two men were killed by a Ukrainian drone strike on their wagon Thursday Moscow-installed regional leader Vladimir Saldo disclosed A -year-old woman was also wounded in the attack he mentioned