President Vladimir Putin has warned again that Ukrainian troops must withdraw from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region or Russia will seize it, rejecting any compromise over how to end the war in Ukraine.
Putin’s comments come after Donald Trump said his negotiators discussing a US peace plan believed Russia’s leader would like to end the war after Tuesday’s talks in Moscow.
Trump said Tuesday’s talks in the Kremlin were reasonably good, adding it was too soon to say what would happen, as it does take two to tango.
The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow was awaiting a response from Washington following the meeting in Russia.
He added there were no plans for a call between Putin and Trump, and no date had been set for a new meeting with Witkoff.
The original iteration of the US peace plan proposed to hand over areas of the Donbas still under Ukrainian control to the de facto control of Putin – but the Witkoff team presented a modified version in Moscow.
Putin’s senior foreign policy adviser and key negotiator, Yuri Ushakov, earlier said straight after the talks that they produced no compromise on ending the war.
Ushakov also implied that the Russian negotiating position had been strengthened thanks to what Moscow said were its recent successes on the battlefield.
Commenting on the Kremlin talks, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybhia said Putin was “wasting the world’s time”.
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