Janet Jalil

Do you feel that pressure from the Americans in the room

But how much longer can it really go on?

Surely the time has come to strike a deal, however painful and unsatisfactory that deal might be.

Ukrainian negotiator Serhii Kislyitsa speaking to Paul Adams in Kiev.

Well, as well as the hundreds of thousands of casualties in Ukraine over the last four years, the conflict has had dramatic consequences in Russia too.

Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg travelled to Lipetsk, halfway between Moscow and the Ukrainian border, to see the effect of the war on Russians.

In the town of Ilyets, walk down Ordzhonikidze Street and you'll come to a butcher, a baker and an online shopping collection point.

Look up and you'll see a mural.

It takes up an entire side of a nine-storey block of flats.

It shows the faces of five Russian soldiers, local men killed fighting in Ukraine.

The giant image hangs over this town.

like the war on Ukraine hangs over Russia.

I notice that passers-by are not looking up at the picture.

It's as if after four years, for people here, this war is no longer something extraordinary.

She tells me that the husband of her friend has been killed fighting in Ukraine, and her cousin's son and grandson.

The Russian authorities do not publish casualty figures for this war.

But conversations like this one point to huge battlefield losses.

More and more Russians tell me about family, friends, or friends of friends who've been wounded or killed in Ukraine.

Irina sends aid packages to Russian soldiers on the front line.

She doesn't criticise the war, but she is confused by it.