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Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley.

Coming up in a few minutes, we'll get the latest from our correspondent on the death of a senior Hezbollah figure in an Israeli strike on Lebanon.

First, as international talks began in Switzerland today about President Trump's latest peace plan for Ukraine,

the president accused Ukrainian leaders of showing zero gratitude for his efforts to end the war so far.

Kiev and its European allies have raised concerns about the proposals,

saying they mirror Russia's demands and that work is needed to reflect Ukraine and Europe's

needs better.

The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn't want to give details of the discussion,

but he did appear upbeat

while speaking to journalists outside the conference room a short while ago.

So you get input, and based on that input, you make adjustments, and then you get more input

or you make a counteroffer and you get more adjustments.

That's an ongoing process.

There's a lot more of that to happen.

So I'm not going to speculate or go into the

details of any of the specific items in the latest version of the proposal because, frankly,

by tomorrow or the next day, that may have evolved and changed further. But I can tell you,

I feel very optimistic that we can get something done here because we made a tremendous amount of progress today.

In a few minutes, we'll hear how Russia's attacks are continuing with full force on the front lines of the war.

In the meantime, the BBC's been getting reaction from Ukrainians about the peace proposal.

One of them is Margarita.

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