US and Ukraine delegations meet near Miami, Florida, November 30, 2025

EA on TVP World: Ukraine, Europe, and the US-Israel War on Iran

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UPDATE 1818 GMT:

Russia says it will halt intelligence-sharing with Iran if the US does the same for Ukraine, say “two people familiar with the US-Russia negotiations”.

The Trump camp has reportedly rejected the proposal.

On Thursday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed to a Congressional hearing that Tehran asked Moscow to share intelligence on American military assets in the Middle East, amid the US-Israel War on Iran.

The Administration, including Donald Trump, has played down the Russia-Iran relationship, claiming that “it is not doing much”.

UPDATE 1637 GMT:

France’s navy has intercepted and boarded another vessel of Russia’s “shadow fleet”.

French President Emmanual Macron posted:

France intercepted vessels of the shadow fleet, which circumvents international sanctions on Russia’s maritime oil exports, in late September 2025 and at the end of January.

In early March, Belgium and France carried a joint operation to detain a sanctioned Russian oil tanker that had been flying under the Guinean flag.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: Ukraine’s negotiating team, seeking to end Russia’s 48 1/2-month full-scale invasion, is in the US for a meeting with American officials.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday, “There has been a pause in the talks, and it is time to resume them. We are doing everything to ensure that the negotiations are genuinely substantive.”

The delegation includes Rustem Umierov, the head of the National Security and Defense Council, and Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Kyrylo Budanov.

“Our priority is to do everything possible to create the conditions for a dignified peace,” Zelensky said.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said yesterday that there is a “situational pause” in talks because of the US-Israel War on Iran. He said Moscow may not engage in further discussion, after three sets of trilateral talks early this year.

Last week Vladimir Putin’s top advisor Kirill Dmitriev consulted with Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Florida. The three men collaborated on a 28-point ultimatum to Ukraine last autumn, but the effort was overtaken by Ukraine-Europe proposals over territory, security guarantees, and recovery and reconstruction.

While military discussions over the monitoring of a ceasefire have made progress, the political talks have not advanced. Russia is rejecting a ceasefire while maintaining its maximalist demands for seizure of territory, especially all of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, and no effective security guarantees for Kyiv.