Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US
presidential envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday was “substantive” and
“positive in tone.”
Sputnik: Russia
is conducting all negotiations on ending the Ukraine conflict
exclusively with the United States, Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov said.
Ushakov
noted that every aspect of a future settlement — and its international
recognition — is now part of the dialogue between Moscow and Washington
alone. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US
presidential envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday was “substantive” and
“positive in tone.” Russia openly expressed its views on the peace proposals presented by the US
The
success of the Russian army on the battlefield has positively
influenced the nature and tone of the talks between Putin and Witkoff
The
US is ready to make every possible effort to achieve a long-term
settlement in Ukraine Washington confirmed its readiness to take
Russian considerations into account during the settlement process
The question of potential Ukrainian membership of NATO was raised during the meeting with US representatives
"This
is one of the key issues, you know. It was discussed. I cannot give
details," Ushakov told reporters when asked whether Ukraine's
participation in NATO was discussed during the Russian-US talks.
Russia–US contacts will continue
Ushakov
expressed hope that European NATO members and Ukraine will eventually
take a more adequate and realistic view of the situation
Russia has no objections to continued contacts with other European nations
"As
for contacts with Europeans, I do not know, in my opinion, no. The
Europeans refuse all contacts. Although Putin has repeatedly said that
if any of the European leaders want to talk, please, they are welcome,
come to Moscow and we will continue contacts. There is no negative
attitude from our side towards the continuation of contacts," Ushakov
told reporters, commenting on whether Moscow has contacts with the
Europeans at some level.
Reason
will prevail — helped by real victories of Russian forces — despite
Volodymyr Zelensky’s contradictory statements about the front-line
situation
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Comment by PCR: I will mention some of the difficulties in the way of a successful
negotiation. In the United States, the conflict is valuable to the
military security complex because it produces profits. Neither the
military security complex nor the American neoconservatives want to lose
their Russian enemy, the neoconservatives foreign policy doctrine is
one of American hegemony and it was in pursuit of this goal that the
United States initiated the conflict in Ukraine. In Europe, the European
union is under pressure and is fracturing. The Russian threat serves to
unify Europe against a common threat. Therefore, from the stand point
of the advocates of the European Union, the conflict in Ukraine serves
to convince the European public to stay United within the European Union
in order to be able to confront Russia. Within Russia, the Russian
nationalist are opposed to any concessions by Putin that would sacrifice
what president Putin has declared to be the conditions for a
settlement. The settlement that Putin intends goes beyond ending the
conflict. Putin wants a settlement that amounts to a mutual security
agreement between the West and Russia, which would make unnecessary the
presence of NATO on Russia’s borders. The Russian nationalists will
insist on these conditions. The Russian liberals who are interested in
again being incorporated into the western system, are willing for Putin
to make concessions in order that they can renew their western
relationships. Perhaps these conflicting interests are the reason the
negotiations are now confined to Putin and Trump.
Previously, I made the point that a successful agreement would have
to be worked out between Putin and Trump and imposed on the other
parties. It seems that this is the only way an agreement can be reached.
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