Broadcast and cable networks went to special reports on Monday as Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to journalists in the Oval Office in advance of talks of a peace deal to settle Ukraine ‘s war with Russia.

Doing so would require the Russian leader to “accept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn’t exist”

Russia is sending signals that it intends to slow-walk a peace-deal on Ukraine, showing some daylight between the Kremlin and President Trump’s intentions to end the war. From a meeting with

President Trump had suggested a meeting between Russia and Ukraine’s leaders could be a potential next step on the path to peace. Russian state news media barely mentioned the idea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian drone strike on Okhtyrka in the Sumy region injured 14 people, including a family with three young children, overnight into Wednesday, August 20.