Vladimir Putin. Photo: Mikhail Metzel / AP / Profimedia
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent to the American emissary Steve Witkoff that Russia is ready to resume peace with Ukraine “without prior conditions,” Kremlin, quoted by AFP, announced on Saturday. The Kremlin announcement came after the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelenski, from the Vatican and before the message of the US president who signals an attitude to the Russian president.
“During yesterday's discussions with Trump's emissary, Steve Witkoff, Vladimir Putin reaffirmed that Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine without any prior condition,” said the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, specifying that the leader from Moscow has made this statement more.
The meeting between Putin and Witkoff took place in Moscow on Friday and lasted three hours, according to the Kremlin. About this meeting, Trump said that “most important points were approved”, without providing other details.
Since then, however, Donald Trump has met with Volodimir Zelenski at the Vatican, and subsequently in a message transmitted on Truth Social has launched a warning to the Russian president, talking about sanctions.
“There is no reason for Putin to shoot with rockets in civilian areas, cities and localities, in the last days. It makes me think that he may not want to stop the war, only to talk, and that he must be treated differently, through” secondary sanctions “or” banking “?” Trump wrote.
What was discussed at the Kremlin
The Kremlin discussions also targeted a plan proposed by the United States for the conclusion of the conflict, and the Kremlin said yesterday that, following the meeting, the differences between the positions of Washington and Moscow on the Ukraine war “have reduced.”
No details were provided about the content of the plan proposed by the American side, but on Friday Bloomberg said that the US emissary will discuss in Moscow about a key request from the United States, namely that Russia will accept Ukraine's right to develop its own army and its own defense industry, as part of a possible peace agreement.
Lately, Trump has warned both Ukraine and Russia that the United States will withdraw their support for peace efforts if there will be no real progress in negotiations.
On Tuesday, the Financial Times wrote that Vladimir Putin offered to stop the invasion of Ukraine along the current line of the front, as part of the efforts to reach a peace agreement with Donald Trump. However, the Kremlin spokesman has questioned the accuracy of the information in the article of the British publication.
“A lot of forgeries are published now, including those published by respected publications, so we should listen only to primary sources,” Peskov told the Russian State Agency RIA Novosti.
