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President Donald Trump has no plans to meet with Vladimir Putin in the near future, a White House official told the media on Tuesday. The official also said that no meeting of the US and Russian foreign ministers is planned because there is no need for such a meeting after their “productive” conversation on Monday.
“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a fruitful conversation. Therefore, an additional personal meeting between the secretary and the foreign minister is not necessary and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the near future,” a White House representative told PAP. Earlier, the White House delivered a similar message to Reuters.
The information appeared after a telephone conversation between the foreign ministers of both countries, Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov, on Monday, after which the initial plan for their direct meeting this week was canceled. A Kremlin spokesman on Monday said Russia's position on the ceasefire had not changed. President Donald Trump called for a halt to the fighting along the current front line on Friday after his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, although according to reports, among others, During the meeting itself, the Financial Times tried to persuade Zelensky to hand over Donbas to Russia.
These are 12 points of the peace plan. Ukraine cooperates with the EU
Ukraine and European countries are preparing a 12-point project for ending the war with Russia on the current front lines, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The plan includes, among others: overseeing the implementation of the truce by a council headed by US President Donald Trump.
CNN reported that Rubio, after his conversation with Lavrov, will probably recommend to Trump to cancel the announced summit with Putin. One source said that Rubio and Lavrov had divergent expectations regarding the possible end of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was unclear when US President Donald Trump would meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on ending the war in Ukraine. No dates had been set and therefore could not be changed.
“The presidents have agreed (on the meetings), but we cannot postpone something that has not yet been finalized,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. – Neither President Trump nor President Putin provided exact dates – he said.
– We need preparations, serious preparations, Peskov said. – This may take some time. That's why no specific dates were initially set, the spokesman argued. Pressed by journalists, he emphasized that there was no information on the possible date of the leaders' summit.
According to NBC News, which also cited a White House official, President Trump concluded that both sides were not yet ready enough to proceed to leadership talks.
Zelensky: Russia has lost interest in peace talks
Russia lost interest in peace talks as soon as the decision to transfer long-range weapons to Ukraine was postponed; Russia is doing everything to escape from diplomacy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
The politician announced a new agreement with European partners, which will be announced later this week. He did not reveal its details, but said that the agreement would concern his country's defense capabilities.
“Ukraine once again expressed its readiness to end the war. We held a meeting with the President of the United States (Donald Trump) and agreed that this is how we will try to organize the dialogue – around the (front) line that currently exists. This was also President Trump's signal to his team, also publicly. The front line can become the beginning of diplomacy,” the president said.
At the same time, he assessed that Russia did not want a diplomatic end to the war. “Meanwhile, Russia is once again doing everything to avoid diplomacy. And as soon as the issue of (long-range weapons) – for us, for Ukraine – became a bit more distant, Russia almost automatically lost interest in the talks. This is a signal that this very topic – the issue of range – may be the indispensable key to peace,” Zelensky said.
The president concluded that the greater the range of Ukrainian means of destruction, the greater will be Russia's readiness to end the war. “The past weeks have confirmed this again. The discussion about Tomahawks turned out to be a strong investment in diplomacy – we forced Russia to show that Tomahawks are the card they are paying attention to. We will talk to Europeans and Americans about the issue of range. The priority is, of course, air defense,” he said.
He repeated that preparations are underway to conclude an agreement with the Americans on the supply of Patriot air defense systems. A day earlier, he announced that Kyiv plans to purchase 25 such systems.
From Kiev Jarosław Junko
From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)
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