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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, speaks during a bilateral meeting at the Gran Kremlin Palace, on March 13, 2025, in Moscow, Russia.
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Russia gave a quiet tone on Friday, but recognized land for cautious optimism, after supporting the “idea” of a high 30 -day fire of the United States with firm warnings.
“The idea (of a high fire) itself is correct and we are certainly supporting it, but there are problems that must be discussed,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, urging more discussions with Washington and a possible call with the White House leader, Donald Trump.
The Kremlin leader has expressed concern that a temporary truce would compete with the kyiv forces to “supply weapons” or “train newly mobilized units” and question how the fire would apply.
Trump, who has defrosted Washington’s relationship with Moscow since the beginning of January of his second term in the presidential office, said Thursday that kyiv and the White House had discussed elements of an agreement that includes territorial concessions, the fate of a nameless energy plant, probably the ease of Zaporizhzhzhia Nuclear in Russia.
“Now we will see if Russia is or not, and if they are not, it will be a very disappointing moment for the world,” Trump said. “(Putin) took a very promising statement, but I was incomplete. And yes, I would love to meet him or talk to him.”
President Steve Witkoff’s envoy met with Putin in Moscow for direct negotiations on Thursday.
“We have a cautious optimism,” said the United States National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, in a Fox News TV interview. “Of course, both parties will have their demands, and of course, both parties will have to make some commitments, and the transfers of transfers of coming and going is happening.”
The Kremlin retained a cautious tone on Friday despite Thursday’s developments.
“There are certainly reasons to be cautiously optimistic,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, journalists, in comments translated into Google carried out by the exit of the Russian state Tass.
“(Putin) said he supports President Trump’s position in terms of an agreement, but expressed some questions that must be answered together,” he added, according to Reuters. “Then, yes, in fact, much remains to be done, but nevertheless, the president expressed solidarity with the position of Mr. Trump.”
This developing story is being updated.
