Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement in Ukraine with President Trump’s envoys during marathon overnight talks, and the Kremlin insisted that the territorial.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement in Ukraine with President Trump’s envoys during marathon overnight talks, and the Kremlin insisted that the territorial issue needs to be resolved to reach a peace deal. The Kremlin meeting, which lasted past 3am Friday, came hours after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky sharply criticized his European allies Thursday for what he cast as their slow and fragmented response to Russia’s nearly four-year full-scale invasion that he said has left Ukraine at the mercy of Putin amid an ongoing US push for a peace settlement, the AP reports.
Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov, who participated in Putin’s meeting with Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, said « it was reaffirmed that reaching a long-term settlement can’t be expected without solving the territorial issue », a reference to Moscow’s demand that Kyiv withdraws its troops from the areas in the east that Russia illegally annexed but never fully captured.
