Keith Adams

Our diplomatic correspondent, Paul Adams, is in Kiev, where he's been talking to Ihor Brusilo, the deputy head of President Zelensky's office.

So we can divide these talks in two parts, the political one and the military one.

And the military seems to be more substantive than the political one.

So they talk business when they meet, and a good sign that they meet.

That's the biggest progress that we can believe, a tangible one.

But what is lacking is the political decision.

Once the political decision to declare the ceasefire as the first stage towards the end of the hostilities is achieved, then the military will know how to act.

What about the American approach at the moment?

Is U.S.

domestic politics starting to loom large over this whole process?

Objectively, yes, it will loom large over the process.

But the good thing is that the United States is involved in the process now.

And they are doing it in good faith.

This is the main idea.

So they are not working to one side or the other.

But the deeper they get involved into the talks, the more intricacies and details they get to know, the more they understand that it's not an easy task to end this war just because you stop fighting and that's it.

But you say good faith.

I mean, that's something that you are confident of now because that's been a question mark that's hung over this, really, for the last year.

Yes, we do believe so because they started to understand better the circumstances and the conditions on the ground.

And, well, the reasons of this war, why Russians started this war.