By Yuliia Dysa and Dan Peleschuk, Reuters
Photo: JIM WATSON / AFP
Russia and Ukraine remain far apart on territorial issues that are blocking a peace deal, despite progress on security guarantees for Kyiv at talks between United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump said after his talks with the Ukrainian president on Sunday (local time) that they were "getting a lot closer, maybe very close" to an agreement to end Russia's war in Ukraine but that "thorny issues" were still there.
Zelensky said two main issues outlined in a 20-point peace proposal remained to be resolved - control of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which is in Russian hands, and the fate of
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