Janet Jalil

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Another round of talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine could be held at the end of the week.

That's according to President Vladimir Zelensky's chief of staff, speaking on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion.

Ukraine has been under sustained pressure from President Trump to agree to a deal.

Our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams is in Kiev and he spoke to us about the latest negotiations.

We are in the middle of a kind of process at the moment.

We've had several recent rounds of negotiations and we think, and the Ukrainians believe, that it is likely that we will have another round possibly as early as Thursday.

Once again in Geneva, just as we will be seeing another round of talks involving the Americans and the Iranians as well on that completely separate issue.

Once again, we're going to see both issues discussed more or less at the same time in the same place.

This morning, I went to see one of President Zelensky's negotiating team, Sergei Kisilitsa.

He is a former ambassador to the United Nations, and he forms part of the negotiating team that is dealing with military matters.

And he told me that they are making progress.

Here's a flavor of what he had to say.

And that 10%...

includes the things we're all very familiar with, the status of the remaining part of the Donbass, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

Is that essentially what we're talking about?

You talk to most Ukrainians and they say they never want to see another Russian in their lives.

You are there in the room dealing with representatives of a leader who has tried very hard at the cost of more than a million of his own men to subjugate and defeat you.

What is that like?