Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
According to Putin’s assistant, US Messenger Steve Witcoof and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Yuri Ushakov said that the possibility of Russia and Ukraine was restoring direct negotiations, was a certain discussion.
The US did not publish details of what was discussed during the meeting, but as US President Donald Trump took place, both sides were close to reaching the deal.
Meanwhile, the President of the Ukrainian Volodimir Zelensky called on the allies to put more pressure on Russia, blaming Moscow of disagreed with the previous temporary ceasefire presented by the United States.
The traffic was stopped when the convoy car carrying Vitkoff arrived in Central Moscow, on the fourth visit to Russia since the beginning of the year.
Three -hour negotiations were named “constructive and very useful” by Putin Ushakov’s assistant.
“This made it possible to bring the positions of the Russians and the US not only to Ukraine, but also on a number of other international issues,” he said.
“In particular, the Ukrainian crisis, in particular, discussed the possibility to resume direct negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives,” he added.
Earlier this week Putin first mentioned from the early stages of the war that he was open for negotiations with Zelensky.
It is believed that his statements in response to the proposal of the Ukrainian president for a 30-hour Easter truce for 30 days. The truce has not yet been agreed.
As the meeting between Witco and Putin, Trump claimed that the negotiations were in the right direction.
“They meet with Putin now as we say, and we have a lot of things, and I think we will eventually get a lot of good proposals, including tariff transactions and trade transactions,” he told reporters in the US.
He said his goal was to stop fighting in Ukraine, which took the life of 5,000 Ukrainians and Russians a week, adding that he believed that “we are quite close” to a peaceful deal.
But the positions of Russia and Ukraine still seem to Miles, and the representative of Ukraine did not suggest to take part in the negotiations in Moscow.
Writing on social media on Friday, Zelensky criticized Russia for Disagreeing with the 30-day ceasefire offered by the US on March 11 And he urged the Allies to put more pressure on him.
“45 days have passed, as Ukraine agreed with the proposal of President Trump on silence, sea and frontline,” he said. “Russia rejects all this. Without pressure it cannot be resolved. Pressure on Russia is needed.”
He said A deadly missile strike by kyiv On Thursday, which killed 12 people.
“Insufficient pressure on North Korea and its allies allows them to make such ballistic missiles. The rocket that killed the residents of Kiev contained at least 116 parts imported from other countries, and most of them, unfortunately, were made by US companies,” Zelensky said.
After the attack on Kiev, Trump said he was “putting a lot of pressure” on both sides to end the war, and directly appealed to Putin as social media, Say, “Stop Vladimir!”
However, since then, Trump has accused Kiev at the beginning of the war, saying Interview with Time magazine: “I think it led to the beginning of the war when they (Ukraine) began to talk about NATO accession.”
Trump also accused the Ukrainian leader of detriment of peace talks, refusing to admit Russian control over Crimea.
“Crimea will remain with Russia,” Trump said on Friday.
Kyiv stands at the receiving end of Trump’s pressure to accept territorial concessions as part of an agreement with Moscow to end the war.
The question of the occupied Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, became a definite Flashpoint point.
Zelensky repeatedly rejected the idea of ​​recognizing Crimea within Russia, telling journalists on Friday: “Our position has not changed – only the Ukrainian people have the right to decide which territories are Ukrainian.”
The US peace plan was not publicly released, but the reports believe that Russia retains the land it received, which is about 20% of the territory of Ukraine – the conditions that are largely in favor of Moscow.
According to the Reuters agency, in which the US proposals transferred to European officials were presented last week, as well as in the following counter -industrials from Europe and Ukraine, there are significant dispensations between them.
The transaction in the US proposes to the US legal adoption of the illegal annexation of Russia Crimea and the actual recognition of Russian control over other occupied districts, including all regions of Luhansk.
On the contrary, Europeans and Ukrainians will discuss only what is happening with the occupied Ukrainian territory after the ceasefire came into force.
On the eve of the negotiations between Witco and Putin on Friday, the senior Russian general was killed during an attack on a car bomb in the Russian capital. The Kremlin accused Ukraine of responsibility. Kyiv did not commented.
Two people also died in the Ukrainian strike in the Russian region of Belgorad, the local governor said. Again Ukraine did not comment on the lawsuit.
