Standing outside the Ukrainian American Community Center, Oleksii Chyrka's anxiety is increasing.

"We are uncertain; we have no idea what to do next," Chyrka tells NPR through a Ukrainian interpreter.

As soon as this week, things could drastically change for Chyrka who, along with his wife, and three kids, could lose his legal status in the U.S. after living here since 2023. That could also mean he will lose his work permit, and his jobs as a cabinet maker and FedEx driver.

The terms of a mineral deal between Ukraine and the U.S. have not yet been finalised, Ukrainian officials said on Friday, after a summary of Washington's latest offer suggested it was demanding all of Ukraine's natural resources income for years.

The latest U.S. proposal would require Kyiv to send Washington all profit from a fund controlling Ukrainian resources until Ukraine had repaid all American wartime aid, plus interest, according to the summary, reviewed by Reuters.

The details of talks between the U.S. and Russia that took place in Saudi Arabia on Monday will not be made public, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

"After all, this is about technical talks," Peskov said, as quoted by Russia's state-run Tass news agency. The discussions, he added, went "into details so, certainly, the content of these talks will not be made public for sure. This is something that should not be expected."

As high-level delegations from the U.S. and Russia arrive in Saudi Arabia for the second round of bilateral talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Moscow’s envoys will have one goal on their mind: buying time.

For the Kremlin, dragging out peace negotiations for as long as possible is imperative for seizing as much Ukrainian territory as it can and getting an upper hand over Kyiv in relations with the U.S., as Moscow isn’t capable of making these battlefield advances quickly, four sources familiar with the Kremlin’s thinking told The Moscow Times. 

A Ukrainian rocket attack killed six people, including three Russian state media workers, in eastern Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Luhansk region, according to Russian news organisations and officials.

The attack on Monday killed war correspondent Alexander Fedorchak, a journalist from Russia’s main pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper, as well as a camera operator, Andrei Panov, who worked for Russian television channel Zvezda, and the channel’s driver, Alexander Sirkeli, the Moscow-appointed governor of the Luhansk region, Leonid Pasechnik, said.

Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia following Russia-U.S. talks there a day earlier on a limited Black Sea ceasefire proposal that Washington hopes will open the way for broader peace negotiations.

Day-long talks on Monday in Saudi Arabia between Russian and U.S. officials were portrayed by Washington as a step in President Donald Trump's effort to end the three-year-old war.

U.S. and Russian officials began talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday aimed at making progress towards a broad ceasefire in Ukraine with Washington eyeing a separate Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal before securing a wider agreement.

The talks, which followed U.S. negotiations with Ukraine in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, come as U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies his drive to end the three-year-old conflict after he last week spoke to both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to stop targeting Ukrainian energy and infrastructure on Tuesday, Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of air strikes on civilian infrastructure. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched more than 40 drones and targeted hospitals. Early Wednesday, Ukrainian state railway company Ukrzaliznytsya said parts of the railway had been left without electricity following a Russian drone attack. 

After a phone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Russia has agreed to a limited ceasefire with Ukraine. 

The 30-day agreement, which centers on ceasing attacks on energy and infrastructure targets, didn't extend to a broader truce proposed by the US and agreed to by Kyiv. Following the Trump-Putin call, Russia and Ukraine have committed to stop attacks on each other's power plants and electric grids. 

US and Ukrainian officials opened peace talks on Tuesday in the Saudi city of Jeddah, hours after Ukraine launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow since the start of the war. During the talks, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire proposal.