Russia agrees to resume trilateral peace talks on Ukraine war

France 24's correspondent, Gulliver Craig, has more now on what came out of that meeting with Witkoff. I mean, the only vaguely positive thing is the Russians agreeing to trilateral talks, though Steve Witkoff said that they would be of a technical nature. And this came after there was talk of just having a meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China to decide on Ukraine's fate, amongst other things, which Ukrainians reacted very angrily to. of course, Volodymyr Zelensky being the first to say we absolutely must have a seat at the table. Generally, Ukrainians that I've been speaking to these last four days are watching aghast at the way Donald Trump seems to have really lined up behind Vladimir Putin. Some think that this is a final decision of his and that that is how it's going to be and that he always was basically pro Russia and now he's just decided to go all out for Russia. Others are more optimistically hoping that this has got something to do with the midterms, perhaps that Donald Trump's behaviour will change after the midterms, perhaps that Donald Trump's party will lose the midterms so catastrophically that he'll be impeached. I mean, I think that it's not only in Ukraine that people are beginning to think that that might be something we ought to be hoping for, given the way the president and not only the president which is something Ukrainians are increasingly worried about but also people around him including Marco Rubio the Secretary of State Steve Witkoff of course you know seem to be saying things that uh first seem to support Russia secondly as Steve Witkoff was saying yesterday which outraged people in Ukraine that seemed to be treating Vladimir Putin not as a war criminal but as a humanitarian that was the word uh that he used and uh all this kind of pro-Russian slant is one thing. And the other thing is that it is so divorced from reality. The things that both Donald Trump and many of the people in his administration are saying don't correspond to what's going on in Ukraine at all. It's very, very easy to point out the factual flaws in their statement.