Kremlin says issue of territory is not the only one holding up a potential Ukraine peace deal

MOSCOW: Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Thursday that the issue of who gets what territory was not the only one holding up a potential deal to end the fighting in Ukraine.
Russia wants Ukrainian forces to withdraw from ⁠the roughly 20 percent of Donetsk region which the Russian army does not control. Kyiv has said it does not want to gift Moscow territory ⁠which Russia has not won on the battlefield.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that active work was under way to reconcile the issue at US-mediated talks. He described the disagreement as a key remaining issue that ⁠was “very difficult” to resolve.
When asked on Thursday whether he agreed that the territorial question was the only outstanding one, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said: “I don’t think so.”
He did not name the other key issues yet to be resolved.