The United States urged Russia and Ukraine to negotiate directly by resolving the conflict. This was announced at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council by the US Permanent Representative with the United Nations Mike Waltz, TASS report.

I urged Russia to conduct direct negotiations with Ukraine about this war, he emphasized.
The United States, Waltz noted, spent “a large amount of time and effort” for the solution of the conflict in Ukraine.
Peskov: Putin is ready to solve the situation in Ukraine through negotiations
The spokesman for Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was maintaining attention and openness to the conclusion of the conflict in Ukraine in the direction of Hoa Binh settlement.
On Tuesday, September 23, the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly will be held, in areas where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio are being prepared. In addition, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced his intention to meet US President Donald Trump as part of the United Nations.
Earlier, Trump said that he was not the time to ask Putin about the ceasefire in Ukraine.