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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has rejected the idea western countries are putting pressure on Kyiv to enter peace talks with Russia.

As the harsh winter months approach in Ukraine, Americans’ views on the war there have shifted, with a plurality now saying the U.S. is doing too much to help Ukraine.

The Biden administration took its quest for emergency military aid for Israel and Ukraine to Capitol Hill on Tuesday in an all-out effort to overcome House Republican attempts to decimate a $106bn package while cutting key parts of the White House’s domestic policy.

Russia and Ukraine are locked in a stalemate on the frontlines of their war and the two sides need to sit down and negotiate an end to the conflict, Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said over the weekend.

A third round of Ukrainian-backed peace talks opened in Malta on Saturday with representatives from more than 60 countries but without Moscow, which condemned it as a “blatantly anti-Russian event.”

On the sidelines of the third meeting of national security and foreign policy advisors, taking place in Malta, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak has started consultations with the Netherlands regarding an agreement on security guarantees.

Ursula von der Leyen gave more details about the delayed plan to use the immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction.

Slovakia says it is halting all military aid to its embattled neighbor, a policy shift that is unlikely to change the balance on the battlefield, but delivers a symbolic blow at a time of growing war fatigue in parts of Europe.