Moscow agrees with Trump that Ukraine is holding up peace deal, Kremlin says

Ukrainian police officers work at the site of a Russian drone strike on a children playground near a monument to Stepan Bandera, a founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. “We must proceed from the premise that security must be truly universal, and therefore equal and indivisible, and it cannot be ensured for some at the expense of the security of others,” Putin said after receiving credentials from foreign ambassadors in the Kremlin. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said late Wednesday that “the Kremlin has been delaying the peace process for months in order to protract the war and achieve Russia’s original war aims through military means.”