Today, Ukrainian officials are meeting with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's

son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to continue negotiations over an American plan to end the war in Ukraine.

On Tuesday, Whitkoff and Kushner visited Moscow to hold nearly five hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Today, Putin said he endorsed only parts of the plan.

This was a necessary conversation, a very concrete one.

We went through each point again.

Sometimes you said, yes, we can discuss this.

But with that one, we cannot agree.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is struggling to hold key frontline towns in the eastern region of Donetsk

that have been destroyed by the war.

This is a new drone video from Mernorad, where before the war there is a population of nearly

50,000 people.

Ukrainian soldiers inside the city are being supplied with food and water delivered by drone.

Putin reiterated today his argument that Russia can capture militarily the parts of Donetsk that Ukraine still holds or Ukraine could hand them over.

With me now, to discuss this and more is Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Olga Stephanie Shina.

Thank you so much for being here.

Hello, Anna.

Thank you for having me.

Before we jump into the latest news today, I want to get your response to the report

we just saw earlier from Jack Houston about this latest corruption scandal.

President Zelensky is managing.

His right-hand man, his chief of staff, Andre Yermak, was among those ousted as part of that scandal.

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