Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was “happy” with US mediators’ “changes” in approach during the first day of the trilateral talks with Russia on ending the invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking in Copenhagen last night, Zelenskyy praised the talks as “constructive and quite substantive,” hoping for more progress to be made today. But he also hit out at Russia’s assessment of its battlefield strengths, saying Vladimir Putin lives in a “different reality”. In a post on social media, Zelenskyy said Russia has claimed at the talks that they occupied half of the Donbas in Ukraine’s east. “This is the problem. Putin lives in a different reality,” the Ukrainian president wrote, adding: “I can draw a picture for him too where I fully occupy Russia. But it’s not true. What was good is that the American side confirmed the Ukrainian assessment of what is happening on the battlefield.” We will hear from him later as he is expected to address the Danish parliament late morning. US envoys Ja