President Zelensky sees that region as a critical source of leverage in any future peace talks with the Russians. His aim is to trade parts of the Kursk area for Ukrainian land that Russia has occupied. “We will swap one territory for another,” Zelensky told the Guardian last month.

That both countries were able to make progress after a bitter White House meeting suggests Trump is always open to further negotiations.

United States President Donald Trump has repeated his claim that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 “would never have happened” if he was president. Trump said this while speaking to reporters during a gaggle on Air Force One on Sunday evening.

The US says it is immediately restoring intelligence sharing and "security assistance" to Ukraine, after talks in Saudi Arabia.

WHAT IS THE AGREEMENT ABOUT? Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, the joint statement says.