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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a joint press conference after his summit on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.
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President of the United States Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin They are ready to join a call on Tuesday to discuss a high fire proposal to stop the war in Ukraine.
Russia is expected to expose its own conditions for a break in the fight, which could include all the shipments of weapons to Ukraine that stop, according to unidentified sources cited by Bloomberg.
Trump has pointed out that the United States could also be willing to commit to Russia.
“We will have talking about land. We will talk about electric power plants,” Trump told journalists on Sunday, when asked about concessions to Moscow in negotiations to end the war of more than three years in Ukraine.
“I think we have much discussed by both parties, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about that, dividing certain assets,” he added, without giving more details.
“We want to see if we can put an end to that war. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good opportunity,” Trump said.
The Trump administration wants to obtain Moscow’s support for a 30 -day break in the fight in Ukraine. Kyiv has already accepted a high fire proposalwhich led Washington to restart military aid and the exchange of intelligence with the country devastated by war After a brief collapse on ties after a white house clash with heating at the end of February.
Russia gave a more silenced answer, and Putin said last week that He agreed with the idea in principle while lists warnings and requests greater negotiation.
“The idea (from a high fire) itself is correct and we are certainly supporting it, but there are problems that must be discussed. I think we need to talk to our American colleagues and partners. Maybe I call President Trump and discuss it together. But we support the very idea of putting an end to this conflict through peaceful means,” he said last Thursday, according to a translation of NBC.
Putin also said that an agreement must “lead to long -term peace and eliminate the fundamental causes of this crisis” and questioned both the application of high fire as if the 30 -day break in the fighting would allow Ukraine “to supply weapons” or “train newly mobilized units.”
‘Manipulative’
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that Putin’s response to the idea of Alto El Fuego was “manipulat.”
“Now we have all heard very predictable and very manipulative words of Putin in response to the idea of silence in the front: in fact, he is preparing to reject it from now on,” said the president in a night speech last Thursday.
A high fire could give both parties to consider its terms for a future peace agreement, but the distance between the priorities of the counterparts is considerable. Ukraine fears that he can be pressed to admit territory occupied by Russia to Moscow and insists on security guarantees.
Meanwhile, analysts are skeptical that Russia will easily remember a high fire or then completely fulfill a truce. Before the large -scale war began in 2022, the previous agreements of Alto El Fuego to end the struggle between the separatists backed by Russian and the Ukrainian forces in the east of the country saw both parties repeatedly accuse themselves of violating the agreements.
The Ukrainian military leads by car on September 23, 2024 in Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia.
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Russia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Grushko, said on Monday that Kremlin would seek “safety guarantees Ironclad” in any possible future peace agreement that Ukraine would not be allowed to join the NATO of the Western Military Alliance and continue to be neutral.
“If we talk about a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, then, of course, it will have an external scheme. We will demand that cast iron security guarantees become part of this agreement. Because only through its training it will be possible to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine and, in general, strengthen regional security,” Grushko said in an interview with Izvestia that was translated by Google.
According to the diplomat, one of these conditions must be the neutral status of Ukraine and the refusal of NATO countries to accept kyiv in the organization.
