Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Friday, is ready to negotiate with the new US President Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine. He said that Trump did not have to come to the “Ukrainian crisis” in 2022 if Trump was the US president at that time. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
“As for the question of negotiations …, we have always said – and I want to emphasize that once again – that we are ready for negotiations on the Ukrainian issue,” Putin told Russian television. According to him, negotiations with Ukraine are complicated by the fact that its President Volodymyr Greeding signed a decree that forbids Ukrainian officials to conduct talks with Russia, Reuters writes.
At the same time, the Russian President said that he was called a war in Ukraine – which he described as a “crisis in Ukraine” – did not have to happen if he was in the office of Trump.
“I cannot disagree with him that if he was president – if he had not stealed an election victory in 2020 – maybe there would be no crisis in Ukraine, which was established in 2022,” said Kremlin chief.
Trump said several times that the war in Ukraine would never have erupted if he was president. He accused his predecessor Joe Biden that he had contributed to the outbreak of this war when he decided that Ukraine should be able to join NATO – although the Russian President categorically disagreed.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday in connection with possible negotiations that Putin “is waiting for signals from the US”.
Trump promised an express end of the war in Ukraine before the elections
However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, according to Reuters, that he does not see the indications that Ukraine or the West were ready for peace negotiations, despite their repeated statements of their need.
Putin said in December that Russia is ready to negotiate with anyone, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Greenland, Reuters writes. At the same time, however, he said that in order for Moscow to consider Zelensky as a legitimate signatory of any agreement, the Ukrainian president would have to be – whose term of office ended last year, but Parliament extended it to him because of the war – re -elected. Ukraine claims that there is no doubt about greenish legitimacy and the aim of Russian statements is to undermine the authority of the Ukrainian president.
The new US President said several times during the campaign that he would reach an agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the day of taking office, if not earlier. At the end of October he made a shift in rhetoric and began to say that he could solve the war “very quickly”. After the election, it has even more alleviated and says that the conflict will simply “resolve”, but did not indicate a specific plan. On Wednesday, Truth Social called on the Russian counterpart to proceed as soon as possible to agree to end the war in Ukraine. Otherwise, according to Trump, the US will impose “high taxes, duties and sanctions” for everything that Russia sells to them and other countries.
Putin on Friday also highlighted Trump as a “wise and pragmatic person” and said he does not believe that the US President would push to reduce world oil prices in an effort to hurt Russia.
