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US President Donald Trump intends to meet his face with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin, probably next week, said on the New York Times on Wednesday, citing two people who know the plan.
After these performances, Trump is said to have a tripartite meeting, which is visited by him, Putin and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
Sources said Trump announced these plans in a telephone conversation with Zelensky and European leaders.
The meetings will include only these three presidents and will not include a single European representative.
European leaders in a telephone conversation on Wednesday seemed to have accepted what Trump said, said one of the people who know telephone communication.
Zelenski: Russia is closer to the ceasefire
A little, in its night speech on Wednesday, Zelenski said that Russia seemed more willing to be the cessation of fire after the visit of the special envoy of the United States Steve Whitkov to Moscow.
“The pressure exerted on them works. But most importantly, they do not deceive us in details – neither us nor the USA, ”he said.
“The pressure exerted on them works. But the main thing is not to deceive us in details – neither we nor the USA, ”he said.
Speaking about Uitkov’s negotiations with Putin in Moscow, Trump called the meeting “extremely productive” in the post on the social platform of truth and stated that “great progress” was achieved ”without expansion to details.
“Everyone agrees that this war should end, and we will work in this direction in the coming days and weeks. Thank you for your attention to this topic! ” – Published.
Nevertheless, the White House official, quoted by Reuters, said that, although the meeting was good and “Russians are ready to participate”, secondary sanctions that Trump threatened to impose Russia.
Witten in Moscow
Earlier on Wednesday, Putin negotiated with the special messenger of Trump in Moscow, a few days before the revised period established by the White House in Russia, in order to reach a peacekeeping agreement with Ukraine.
Trump’s deadline for Putin to achieve peace in Ukraine expires on Friday, reviewing up to 50 days, which he originally established.
Washington threatened with “strict responsibilities” and other financial sanctions if the battles did not stop.
Nevertheless, Trump himself questioned the effectiveness of sanctions, saying on Sunday that Russia was “good enough to avoid sanctions.”
The Kremlin insists that international sanctions imposed after a complete invasion had a limited effect.
But Ukraine claims that sanctions explained their price to the Moscow military machine and want the Western allies to increase them.
Trump also expressed a growing disappointment from Putin about the escalation of Russian attacks on not military regions of Ukraine.
The meeting between Putin and Witten lasted about three hours.
Putin’s consultant on foreign policy Yuri Usakov said that Putin and Whitkov had “useful and constructive debates”, which were concentrated in the Ukrainian war and “prospects for the possible development of strategic cooperation between the United States and Russia”.
Before these negotiations, Uitkov walked in the Park of the Night, not far from the Kremlin, with Siril Dmitry, the envoy of the Russian President for Investments and Economic Cooperation.
Later, Dmitriv told the Platform of Social Networks X that “the dialogue prevails.”
Dmitryev played a key role in three rounds of direct negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine in Constantinople in recent months, as well as in discussions between Russian and American officials.
These negotiations did not reached progress in the termination of the three -year war after Russia, but contributed to the exchange of prisoners of war between the two sides.