Russia and Ukraine signal the most progress yet in negotiations.

Russia and Ukraine achieved their most significant progress yet in peace negotiations on Tuesday, with Moscow promising to reduce “by multiples” the intensity of its military activity around Kyiv and to its north.

Ukrainian officials for the first time outlined potential concessions over territory occupied by Russia, proposing that negotiations about the status of Crimea — the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow seized and annexed in 2014 — be conducted over a period of 15 years, with Ukraine refraining from trying to retake the peninsula by force.

The issue of the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, which Russia no longer recognizes as part of Ukraine, could be discussed in negotiations between President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, an aide to Mr. Zelensky said after Tuesday’s talks. Read more

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