US and Russia discuss the inclusion of Ukraine in direct negotiations
The three -hour meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President’s envoy, Donald Trump Steve Whitkof, was constructive and reduced differences in the end of the war in Ukraine. This was stated by Putin’s assistant Yuri Ushakov, who attended the conversations.
Ushakov said the meeting between Putin and Whitkoff was constructive and reduced differences in the end of the war in Ukraine.
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He said the two had discussed the possibility of resuming direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, something that Moscow refuses because he did not recognize the legitimacy of the Ukrainian president whose mandate had expired.
« This conversation allowed Russia and the United States to further bring their positions closer, not only in terms of Ukraine, but also in a number of other international issues, » Ushakov told reporters.
| « As for the Ukrainian crisis itself, the discussion focuses in particular on the possibility of resuming direct negotiations between representatives of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, » added Putin’s adviser. |
Russia and Ukraine did not have direct negotiations from the first weeks of the war, which began in February 2022.
The US country has not yet commented on the results of Friday conversations in the Kremlin. Like Ukraine.
But before he cast for Rome, where he will participate in the Pope Francis’ funeral ceremonies on Saturday, the US president said: « I think Russia and Ukraine are doing well, we hope. »
However, Trump warned both sides that the United States would give up their efforts unless real progress was made.
Crimea got up and would remain Russian, Trump said
Reuters writes that Whitcof has emerged as a key interlocutor of Washington with Putin, while Trump insists on an agreement to end the war, which has already entered his fourth year, and has already held three long meetings with the Kremlin leader.
His last trip comes after talks this week, at which Ukrainian and European representatives opposed some of the US proposals to settle the conflict, the most deadly in Europe after World War II.
The last conversation between the two was in St. Petersburg on April 11. Then it also looked like a new phone conversation between Putin and Trump was planned. It is not known so far that it has taken place.
