Negotiations between Russia and the United States march well, but we must not expect immediate results, said Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskovin an interview released this Sunday. “Everything goes well (…) but we must not wait Immediate results. The problems were too complex and were neglected for a long time, “Peskov told the presenter of Russian state television Pável Zarubin.
Peskov said that “reactivating relationships practically from scratch is a very difficult matter”, which requires intense “diplomatic and other” efforts. “This path consists of small steps To recreate a climate of at least a minimum of mutual trust and (then) strengthen this trust, “he explained. The spokesman insisted that the parties are now dedicated precisely to that.
“Contacts are being established through Special servicesthrough the Foreign Ministries, “he said. In this regard, he highlighted the” very active and almost regular exchange of Views of special representatives“From Russia and the US, alluding to the recent trip of the Russian Kiril Dmítriev To Washington and the visit to St. Petersburg this week of the Donald Trump emissary, Steve Witkoff. According to Peskov, these visits are “a good and reliable channel” for the exchange of opinions between the parties.
“The presidents receive the messages transmitted in this way and have the opportunity to evaluate the situation and the real approach of the negotiations,” he said. Witkoff held on Friday conversations for more than four hours with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in St. Petersburg, where he arrived in the morning of that day and visited before meeting with the head of the Kremlin the great coral synagogue of the city, the largest of Russia and the second largest in Europe.
The meeting, the third in two months, was held behind closed doors without its details transcended in the press. But the Russian economic negotiator DMítriev, who attended the meeting, said the conversations were “productive.”
The situation of Ukraine
Trump said this Saturday that he believes that the situation between Ukraine and Russia “is going well”, although attacks on both parties continue and the US president had expressed frustration due to the lack of progress between both parties.
“I think the relationship between Ukraine and Russia may be doing well. And they will discover it very soon. There is a point where you have to endure or shut up. We’ll see what happens, but I think it’s going well, “he said in conversation with media aboard the Air Force One, the US presidential plane.
Shortly before the meeting between Putin and Witkoff, the US president urged Russia to take steps to end the hostilities in Ukraine in order to get both parties to sign peace.
