The memorial for the fallen Ukrainian and foreign fighters on Independence Square in Kyiv on November 27th. Photograph: Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images

Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that outline draft peace proposals discussed by the United States and Ukraine could become the basis of future agreements to end the conflict in Ukraine, but that if not Russia would fight on.

US president Donald Trump has long said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second World War, but his efforts so far, including a summit with Mr Putin in Alaska in August, have

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