A Kremlin envoy said peace talks on a proposed U.S. plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were progressing “constructively” in Florida, while the Ukrainian president said they were moving “quickly.”

The talks are part of the Trump administration's efforts in recent months to seek peace, which also included meetings with Ukrainian and European officials in Berlin earlier this week.

The talks in Florida continue

“The discussions are moving forward constructively. They started earlier and will continue today, and they will also continue tomorrow,” Kirill Dmitriev told reporters in Miami on Saturday.

Dmitriev met with US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.

Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram on Sunday that diplomatic efforts were “progressing quite quickly, and our team in Florida has been working with the American side.” This came after Ukraine's top negotiator said Friday that his delegation had completed separate meetings in the United States with American and European partners.

Trump has launched an extensive diplomatic push to end the war, but his efforts have been met with sharply opposing demands from Moscow and kyiv. Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently signaled that he is sticking to his maximalist demands for Ukraine, as Moscow's troops slowly advance onto the battlefield despite huge losses.

Putin on Friday expressed confidence that the Kremlin would achieve its military objectives if kyiv did not accept Russia's conditions in peace talks.

Possible Franco-Russian talks

The French presidency on Sunday welcomed Putin's willingness to talk to President Emmanuel Macron, saying it would decide how to proceed “in the coming days.”

“As soon as the prospect of a ceasefire and peace negotiations becomes clearer, it is again useful to talk to Putin,” Macron's office said in a statement. “It is positive that the Kremlin publicly agrees with this strategy.”

The statement came after reports that Putin was open to holding talks with the French president if there was mutual political will.

Macron's office said any dialogue would aim to “contribute to a strong and lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe, in full transparency with President Zelenskyy and our European partners.”

European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide $90 billion. euros ($106 billion) to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs over the next two years, although they failed to overcome differences with Belgium that would have allowed them to use frozen Russian assets to raise the funds. Instead, they borrowed from the capital markets.

Lubinets said he contacted Russia's human rights commissioner, requesting information about the whereabouts and conditions of the civilians, and demanding their immediate return to Ukraine.

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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.