Overview
- Negotiators agreed to swap at least 1,200 prisoners each and Russia offered to return the bodies of 3,000 fallen soldiers
- Russia proposed working groups on political, humanitarian and military issues to sustain contacts despite core disagreements
- Ukraine pressed for an immediate full ceasefire, but Russia proposed only short 24- to 48-hour truces to retrieve the wounded and bodies
- Kyiv advanced plans for a four-way summit by end of August involving Presidents Zelenskiy, Putin, Trump and Erdogan, which Russia said must await concrete peace accords
- US President Trump set a 50-day deadline for a ceasefire under threat of sanctions, but the Kremlin held firm as clashes and drone attacks continued