Here on the ground, we don’t feel any real changes from all these high-level meetings and statements,” a soldier said.

Ukrainian forces have halted Russia’s summer offensive in the north of the country, recapturing some land and underlining Moscow’s inability to put together decisive operations in its three-and-a-half-year war.

President Donald Trump is reconsidering his approach to ending the conflict in Ukraine, remaining non-committal to excluding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from peace talks with Russia.