Delegations Ukraine And who US A new round of negotiations will be held in Florida after the talks between the Americans and the Russians ended in fruitless results, due to the refusal of the President of the United States. Russia, Vladimir PutinRegarding some points of the peace proposal.
In an interview with the newspaper India Today, excerpts of which were published by the Russian state agency TASS, Putin said that he did not agree with some issues related to the plan, and that each issue needed to be discussed in detail with Washington negotiators.
Putin added: “There were issues during the formulation of the peace plan for Ukraine on which no consensus was reached (…). In some cases we said: ‘Yes, we can discuss this matter,’ but we cannot agree on it.”
According to him, the American delegation thought about dividing the 28 proposals into four blocs, But for Putin, they are just the same proposals in a rearranged form.
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump classified the talks with Moscow as “reasonably good,” but declared that he did not clearly know what the outcome of the negotiations would be.
Trump is pressuring the two parties involved in the conflict to accept a ceasefire agreement in the war. Last month, Trump surprised international leaders by announcing a 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine.
But the proposal was rejected by the authorities in Kiev and European allies, who viewed it as tantamount to Ukraine’s surrender.
The plan was to be reduced from 28 to 19 points after negotiations with the Ukrainians last week. But in the interview conducted with him today, Putin mentioned a proposal that includes 28 elements.
In total, last Tuesday’s talks between the United States and Russia lasted more than five hours.
The outcome of the dialogues in the Russian capital is supposed to be present at this Thursday’s meeting between the Ukrainians, led by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Rustam Omerov, and the representatives of the United States, led by Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who participated in previous rounds with the Ukrainians, described the negotiations as “productive” but “complicated.”
In an interview today, Putin reiterated Russia’s interest in seizing part of Ukrainian territory, one of the proposals rejected by Kiev and European authorities.
He added: “Moscow proposed that Kiev withdraw Ukrainian armed forces from Donbass, which would have avoided any military confrontation, but Ukraine preferred to continue hostilities.”
He added: “Either we liberate these lands by force of arms, or the Ukrainian forces will leave these lands.”
In parallel with the negotiations, fighting continues on the front lines in Ukraine. Today, the Russian overnight attack on the city of Kherson has left thousands without electricity or heat in the area.
According to local authorities, more than 40,000 people have been affected in the area. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced that another 60,000 people were cut off from power supplies, which is extremely important with the arrival of winter in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that “a decent peace will not be possible unless Ukraine’s interests are taken into account.” He added: “At the present time, the world clearly feels that there is a real opportunity to end the war, and the current diplomatic activity in the negotiations must be restored.”