President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday as airstrikes near Kyiv seemed to bear out Western skepticism that peace talks could ease Russia's assault on Ukraine.
Biden told his counterpart the US would provide Ukraine another $500 million in"direct budgetary aid," the White House said afterward, and discussed"how the United States is working around the clock to fulfill the main security assistance requests by Ukraine.
A prospective meeting between Zelensky and Putin was also put on the table.Yet a day later, Moscow downplayed any advances in diplomacy. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there were no breakthroughs. And pessimism continued to pervade among Western leaders the talks could yield significant progress. The continued violence in Ukraine on Wednesday seemed to confirm US suspicions that Russia's claims of de-escalation were nothing more than an attempt to deflect.
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