Putin speaks at the Kremlin about meeting with Trump: “Topic and very useful”/ The offer he made to the US President
Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP / Profimedia
Russian President Vladimir Putin said, during a television meeting with high Russian officials, in Kremlin, that his visit to Alaska was “timely and very useful,” informs Reuters.
Putin also told the dignitaries that Russia respects the position of the United States regarding the conflict of Ukraine, which he said that Moscow is trying to conclude it peacefully.
“I had the opportunity and took advantage of it to discuss the origins and causes of this crisis (the war in Ukraine n.red). A solution must be built precisely on eliminating the initial causes” of the conflict, Putin said at the meeting at the presidency, government and Parliament in Moscow.
“We have no direct negotiations of this kind at this long level” and “I had the opportunity to reaffirm our position calmly and thoroughly,” he added.
“We respect the position of the American administration, which sees the need for a rapid cessation of hostilities. And we would like this, as well as progress towards solving all problems by peaceful means,” the Russian president continued.
“The discussion was very sincere, substantial and, in my opinion, we bring us closer to the necessary decisions,” Putin concluded.
Putin's plan for Ukraine
According to the Financial Times, Putin asked on the summit in Alaska with US President Donald Trump on Friday, that Ukraine would completely retreat from the eastern region Donetsk and instead freezes the rest of the front line if its main requirements are met.
Citing four people who have information about the discussions at the summit between Trump and Putin, the latter promised that once they were total control in Donetsk not to claim other Ukrainian territories beyond the contact line.
According to the American press, Russia would have proposed before the Alaska summit to stop the offensive along the current front line in the provinces of Zaporojie and Herson, located in the southeast and southern Ukraine, and withdraw their troops from the provinces of Dnipropetrovsk (Center), Sumî (North), but only in the North-East Donbas region, respectively on the provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine. The province of Lugansk is the only one that the Russian army has managed to occupy almost completely, while part of Donetk is still under Ukrainian control.
