Efforts to end Ukraine war a drawn-out process: Russia

Moscow rejected a US proposal for an immediate 30-day halt in the fighting, and earned Trump's ire by questioning Zelenskyy's credibility

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Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as a drawn-out process," a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after US President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries' leaders as he tries to bring about a truce.

"We are working to implement some ideas in connection with the Ukrainian settlement. This work is ongoing," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said to reporters. "There is nothing concrete yet that we could announce. This is a drawn-out process because of the difficulty of its substance," he said when asked about Trump's anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's legitimacy to negotiate a deal.