Ukraine suspects Russia is not really interested in pausing the conflict and ending the war, and the head of the country’s delegation, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, said the key points could only be resolved at face-to-face talks between President Zelensky and President Putin.

The second round of talks was even shorter than the first and didn’t address any substantive issues to ending the three-year conflict.

The second round of negotiations to resolve Europe’s largest land war since World War II ended with even less of an outcome than the first round.