Will Putin Accept New Peace Proposals?
The Russian president said this week that Moscow's pre-war aims must be met "unconditionally" while criticising the European leaders supporting Ukraine.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed an EU agreement to supply Kyiv with a €90bn loan, avoiding an imminent deficit in its wartime finances. It comes after Vladimir Putin referred to European leaders as "piglets" while dismissing any peace deal which does not "unconditionally" satisfy Russia's pre-invasion aims. The Russian president is yet to be presented with the latest US-led proposal on how to end the war in Ukraine, after Donald Trump spoke positively about progress made during multilateral talks in Berlin.
To answer your questions, Lucy Hockings is joined in the Ukrainecast studio by the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, security correspondent Frank Gardner, and Europe digital editor Paul Kirby. Which competing visions are at play inside the White House as the US ramps up peace efforts? How is the Ukrainian air force being revolutionised? And could anything make China speak up on behalf of Ukraine?
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