Joe Inwood

Now, the latest form that's taken is these three-day talks in Miami.

We've seen high-level Ukrainian and U.S.

delegations trying to hammer out some form of new plan.

Now, we don't know.

Unlike in previous iterations, we don't know what the details of that are.

But we did get a sense from President Zelensky over the weekend when he said...

The conversations were constructive, but obviously very difficult.

And then there was that clip of President Trump that we heard just a few moments ago, in which he was pretty critical of President Zelensky.

We're seeing him returning to his quite often position of being, frankly, relatively hostile to the Ukrainian leader, saying he'd not even read the latest proposals.

Now, we understand that those proposals have been put to him in person today.

And that what we assume that they will be discussed with the European leaders.

But as you say, there is a sort of a building pressure from the Americans to try and force Ukraine into some sort of concession.

And that will take many forms, but most notably, I think, limits on the size of their armed forces and the idea of ceding territory in the east of Ukraine to Russia in order to get some sort of peace deal.

There's been an awful lot of controversy about one particular boat strike on the 2nd of September, where it was struck a second time.

There are two ways of looking at this.

Either that is because there genuinely is progress being made and things really have been agreed.

That would be the positive interpretation.

Or the other way of looking at it is it is inevitable he's going to be positive, even if nothing was agreed.

Because one of the things that Kiev needs to be seen to be doing...

is to be contributing towards talks.