Finland’s president says Ukraine talks may be at ‘end of the road’

Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who has close ties with both US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, fears US-led Ukraine peace talks may be over, he said in an interview published on Thursday.

“It may be due to the war in Iran, which is drawing a lot of attention away from the war in Ukraine. But it may also be that the negotiations have come to a halt because they’ve reached the end of the road and are not making any further progress,” Stubb said in the interview with Norwegian daily VG.

“I believe the American negotiators have done everything they could, and that most of it now hinges on one issue: Donetsk and territories. But the big problem here is that I don’t think Russia wants peace,” he said.

Ukraine sent a delegation to the United States last weekend in a bid to revive the negotiation process, but the effort yielded no immediate result.