The Kremlin plays Zelensky’s conversations because Trump warns Putin may not want to “make a deal”

The Kremlin spoke about the inevitable summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine Zelensky Ukraine when Donald Trump resumed the call of two leaders to meet to discuss the end of the war in Ukraine.

Last week, the impetus for a bilateral meeting took place after the US president met with Putin in Alaska, and on Monday he welcomed seven European leaders and Zelensky to the White House.

Trump acknowledged that the conflict was “tough” to resolve and acknowledged that perhaps the Russian president was not interested in ending hostilities.

“We will find out about Putin’s president in the next couple of weeks,” he said on Tuesday. “Perhaps he doesn’t want to make a deal.”

Putin faced a “rough situation” when it was so, Trump added without offering any details.

Russian President said Trump on Monday that he was “open” to the idea of direct negotiations with Ukraine, but the next day, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov fuel this already uncertain commitment.

Any meeting should be prepared “gradually … Starting with the level of experts and after that, experiencing all the necessary steps,” he said, repeating the Kremlin’s frequent line.

Dmitry Polyian, Deputy Russian Representative, said the BBC: “Nobody (no one has rejected)” the opportunity for direct negotiations “, but it should not be a meeting for the meeting.”

On Tuesday, it was reported that Putin suggested Trump that Zelensky could go to Moscow for negotiations that Ukraine would never accept.

The proposal may have been a Russian way to highlight the option, so Kyiv could not agree on it.

Negotiations over the last few days appear to have given Trump an updated understanding of the complexities of war and the Gulf between Moscow’s requirements and Kiev’s position.

Many of the desired ceasefire, he said he could make Putin agree, did not come true – and now the US president said that Ukraine and Russia should go directly to a permanent peace deal – but some step was made in terms of security guarantees for Ukraine.

Zelensky and European leaders seem to have convinced Trump that such commitments would have the paramount sovereignty of Kiev in the event of a peaceful transaction.

On Tuesday, Trump said the United States is ready to help Europeans “by air” when they provide boots on Earth in Ukraine in case of ceasefire or peace agreement, although it turned off the deployment of US troops.

The US president, however, did not enter into the specifics of whether such air support may entail intelligence or use of fighters and military aircraft.

While Trump’s liabilities remain vague, France and the coalition led by the UK stated that it was working to secure the assurance plans that can be sent to Ukraine when the hostilities are over.

After the virtual meeting of the group on Tuesday, the Down Staning -Rate press said that the group would meet with American colleagues in the coming days to “further strengthen the plans to ensure reliable security guarantees.”

After his summit with Putin and the latest negotiations with Zelensky, Trump now thinks that direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia may bring peace closer – although he admitted that there was “huge bad blood” between the two leaders.

The last time they met was in 2019. Since then, the Moscow War in Kiev has led to tens of thousands of victims, as well as a wide destruction and permanent air attacks on civil purposes.

Putin views Zelensky illegitimate and views it as responsible for the growth of Ukraine’s closeness to the West. For many years, he is unjustified claims that Kiev manages the “neo -Nazi regime” and stated that any ceasefire with Ukraine should entail changes in the leadership of Kiev.

Russia is also little interested in the negotiation agreement, while its troops have the top on the front line.

However, European leaders and Zelensky spoke in favor of the idea of a bilateral meeting. The President of the Ukrainian said on Monday that he had been open to the “any format” of the meeting with Putin, while Europeans put forward ideas for potential places at the summit.

With delight, supporting direct negotiations, they probably hope to persuade Trump to return to a tougher position against Moscow, Putin should not want to take measures to end the war.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s European partners look much less optimistic than Trump, that conflict resolution may be within reach.

On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron called Putin a “predator, and aggressed on our doorstep and expressed” the greatest doubt “that the Russian president is ready to work on peace.

President Finlanka Alexander Stubb said that Putin was “rarely trusted”, adding that he was skeptical of the meeting with Zelensky materialized.

The upcoming days are scheduled for higher levels when there are questions about Trump’s support level in Europe.

The UK military chief, Admiral Tony Radakin, goes to Washington to discuss the deployment of reassurance forces in Ukraine, while NATO military chiefs will be held on Wednesday.