Ukraine peace talks down to one issue, US envoy Witkoff says

US envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday said “a lot of progress” had been made in Ukraine peace talks and that negotiations were down to one last issue.

The United States has held talks with Russia, and separately with Kyiv and European leaders, on various different drafts of a plan for ending the war in Ukraine, but no deal has yet been reached despite Trump’s repeated promises to clinch one.

“If both sides want to solve this, we’re going to get it solved,” Witkoff told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

A Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman reacts after firing a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops near the frontline town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region on January 18, 2026. via REUTERS President Donald