According to a Putin adviser, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US ambassador Steve Witkoff held “constructive” three-hour discussions in Moscow on Friday. According to Yuri Ushakov, one topic of conversation was the potential for direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to resume.
Although the United States has not disclosed the specifics of the meeting, President Donald Trump later stated that efforts to reach a peace agreement between the two parties were proceeding “smoothly.
In the meantime, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC that if a “full and unconditional ceasefire” was reached, then territorial disputes between Ukraine and Russia could be considered.
According to reports, a US peace proposal would require Ukraine to cede significant areas of land that Russia had seized. Trump has stated that he would back Russia’s unlawful 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Zelensky has already rejected this notion.
On his fourth trip to Russia since the year began, Witkoff arrived in downtown Moscow in a convoy of automobiles that caused traffic to stop.
Ushakov, a Putin adviser, described the three-hour discussions as “constructive and very useful. The Russian and US positions have moved closer together, not just on Ukraine but also on a range of other international issues, he claimed.
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