Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Moscow is open to engaging in discussions with the United States regarding a peace proposal that had been the subject of negotiations between Washington and Kyiv. She indicated that such discussions could potentially occur as soon as Thursday.
Following high-level discussions in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday with senior American diplomats, Ukraine expressed its willingness to agree to a temporary truce lasting 30 days. Meanwhile, the United States conveyed that it was presenting this proposal to the Russian government for consideration.
“We are ready to discuss the initiatives set out there in future contacts with the United States. Such contacts are already possible as early as today,” Zakharova stated.

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Immigrants kept the largest urban counties in the U.S. growing last year. Core counties in the Houston, Miami and Phoenix metropolitan areas grew more than any others in the country primarily because of people moving in from outside the United States, according to population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday. Without the international migration, Harris County, Texas, Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Maricopa County, Arizona, would have had nobody moving there last year. That’s because more people already living in the country moved out of than into those counties. Miami-Dade County would have lost population without the immigrants, since the number of births outpacing deaths wasn’t enough to overcome the tens of thousands of residents who moved out.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with his fellow Foreign Ministers at the G7 meeting in Canada.