Ukraine and Western governments want Russia to agree to an immediate, unconditional ceasefire lasting at least 30 days, but a Ukrainian source said Russia's demands were too much.

* International recognition that five parts of Ukraine -- the Crimea peninsula annexed in 2014, as well as the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions -- are Russian. The U.S. draft had proposed only U.S. de jure recognition for Crimea, and U.S. de facto recognition for Russian-controlled parts of the other regions.

Officials from Ukraine and Russia met Friday in Turkey for the first direct peace talks since Russia’s invasion in February 2022 sparked the more than three-year war. The talks lasted