The president’s special envoy Donald Trump, Steve Witkoffhas arrived in Moscow on the morning of this Friday and has met with the Russian president, Vladimir Putinaccording to the sources consulted by the Interfax agency. This visit had been … previously announced by the Kremlin foreign policy advisor, Yuri ushakovand occurs the next day of A devastating Russian attack With missiles against kyiv with 12 dead and 87 wounded, which exclaim Trump on Thursday Vladimir, to! Witkoff met the previous time with Putin in St. Petersburg just two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister, SERGUÉI LAVROVin statements to the American CBS chain, has assured that Kremlin is ready to reach a peace agreement with Ukraine. According to Lavrov, «the president of the United States speaks of an agreement and we are willing to reach it. However, there are still specific aspects to refine and this is exactly what we are doing now ».
The head of Russian diplomacy, however, did not clarify to what concrete aspects it refers to, but stressed that Trump “believes, and I think that rightly, there are indications that we move forward in the right direction.” In his words, the American president “is probably the only leader in the land that recognizes the need to resolve the deep causes of the situation in Ukraine (…) among other things, he understands that the adhesion of Ukraine to NATO is unacceptable for Russia.” So, he added, “we continue our contacts with the American part about the situation in Ukraine.”
According to sources from the Bloomberg agency, “the United States will require Russia to recognize the right of Ukraine to have its own army and defense industry” and this issue will be addressed during the meeting that Putin and Witkoff maintain as well as the delivery by Russia of the control of the Zaporiyia nuclear power plant to the US The Járkov region occupied by Russia is returned to Ukraine. The American proposal would also contain provisions related to navigation the Dnieper River by Ukraine. The mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klichkóhe acknowledged Friday in an interview with the ‘BBC’ that «One of the scenarios would be to give territories. It is unfair, but for peace, a temporary peace, it may be a transitory solution »without giving up its recovery the future.
In statements to the French publication ‘Le Point’, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, He said this week that “the war in Ukraine could stop immediately” if kyiv agrees to withdraw his troops from the territory of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporiyia and Jersón. Moscow considers these regions, partially occupied by the Russian army, as theirs after its annexation and incorporation into the articles of the Russian Constitution. Previously, however, according to the ‘Financial Times’, Putin told Witkoff in St. Petersburg his willingness to cease hostilities in the current front line, but Peskov denied it.
Another spiny aspect would be the interlocutor by Ukraine in an eventual peace agreement. This Tuesday, the Kremlin spokesman insisted that “Putin has repeatedly expressed his willingness to establish conversations with Ukraine but, for this, kyiv must previous Russia”. This approach has been put by Putin several times and has even proposed that the UN take control of Ukraine to organize elections in the hope of moving Zelenski of power.
