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It's 1,143 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And I'm here with Vitaly and Olga, and we are recording on Friday afternoon.

And my dear colleagues, it's been a busy day so far.

And there's been a big meeting, yet another big meeting in Brussels, a lot of sums of money.

Military aid for Ukraine announced, Vitali, top numbers.

Ukraine's allies meeting and they have pledged to give Ukraine $24 billion worth in new military support.

So that's what's happening in Europe.

Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg, within the past 10 minutes, we've been getting reports

that Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Whitkoff, is meeting Vladimir Putin.

Their meeting has begun.

Before that, the Kremlin spokesman and Dmitri Peskov said that they will be discussing

plans for the two presidents to meet Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Ukraine, obviously,

on the agenda. But Peskov says,

do not expect a breakthrough. So let's see what happens there. Sergei Lovrov, the Russian foreign

minister, this morning he was speaking in Kazakhstan. And yet again, he delivered this line

of any solutions in Ukraine. They need to be

based on resolving the underlying reasons for this crisis. That's the wording that he used.

And that kind of suggests that Russia is reluctant to sign a quick ceasefire deal or anything other than, and I will quote

Sergei Lavrov again, a strong, lasting and reliable peace based on resolving those issues.

So I'm not really expecting much out of this meeting.

But also, Russia in principle would not be massively

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