Kremlin said on Sunday that contacts with US President Donald Trump’s team were progressing very well, but it was too early to expect immediate results due to the level of damage caused to Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.
Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, said repeatedly that he wants to end the “bloodbath” of the three -year war in Ukraine.
After his special envoy Steve Witkoff talked to President Vladimir Putin, Trump said on Saturday that discussions to end the war may be doing well, but “there is a point where you have to contain yourself or be quiet.”
“Everything is doing very well,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Kremlin’s most prominent reporter on Russian state television, Pavel Zarubin, when asked about the different visions about the state of relations between Moscow and Washington.
Contacts were underway at various levels, Peskov said, including through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Intelligence Agencies and Putin’s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitiev.
“But, of course, it is impossible to expect instant results,” Peskov said, citing what he called damage to bilateral relations under Biden.
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The Ukraine invasion of Russia in 2022 triggered the worst confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuba missile crisis – which is considered when the two Cold War superpowers came closer to an intentional nuclear war.
While Witkoff was talking to Putin on Friday in the former Russian imperial capital, St. Petersburg, about the search for a peace agreement for Ukraine, Trump told Russia to “move.”
Putin was shown on state TV greeting Witkoff, which led his heart to the heart at the beginning of negotiations, and state news agencies later said they lasted more than four hours.
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Asked if a meeting between Putin and Trump was approaching, Peskov said the two powers were “walking together this way with great patience,” but trying to restore relationships required serious and meticulous work.
European leaders and Ukraine describe the 2022 invasion as an appropriation of Putin -style imperial -style land, and European leaders have repeatedly demanded that Russia be defeated on the battlefield, although Moscow forces control almost one fifth of Ukraine.
Putin describes the war in Ukraine as part of a battle against a decline, which he said humbled Russia after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 by expanding NATO’s military alliance and invading what he considers Moscow’s sphere of influence, including Ukraine.
