Russia ready, but won't rush into Ukraine deal

KREMLIN'S CALL | Moscow says no reply from Kyiv yet to talks offer, although US is keen on 'quick success in peace efforts'

- Agencies

President Vladimir Putin is open to peace in Ukraine and intense work is going on with the United States, but the conflict is so complicated that the rapid progress that Washington wants is difficult to achieve, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly said he wants to end the "bloodbath" of the more than three-year war in Ukraine. But Washington has been signaling that it is frustrated by the failure of Moscow and Kyiv to reach terms to end the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two.