Special American envoy Steve Witkoff, according to the agency, arrived in Moscow, where his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected.
According to the agency, the envoy Donald Trump, who has met Vladimir Putin several times, as part of the negotiation to demand that Russia recognize the right of Ukraine to maintain its own military and defense industry within the peace agreement.
One of the Russian requirements since the beginning of the invasion is the so -called. Demilitarization of Ukraine, a significant reduction in the number of soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces and a restriction of production in the defense industry. This is strictly rejected by Ukraine.
US wants Russians to leave Zaporožská power plant
The Moscow Times reminds us that the request signals that Washington will also demand some concessions from Russia. So far, there have been more of the concessions required of the Ukrainians.
According to Bloomberg, the US also wants to withdraw from Russia to withdraw from the Ukrainian Zaporozka nuclear power plant, which his army has occupied since 2022.
However, the power plant would not return to Ukraine, but according to a document that the US party presented according to the server last week in Paris Ukrainians, it would be checked by the United States. The power plant would subsequently supply energy for both parties – ie in the territory under the control of Ukraine and those occupied by Russia.
One of Trump’s designs is “robust security guarantees” for Ukraine, but as Axios wrote, the document is vague at this point and no US participation is mentioned.
It also writes that Ukraine could get back a small piece of territory in the Kharkov region, which was occupied last May by the Russian army, as well as unlimited access through the Dneper River. Today, in the south of Ukraine in the Charson and Small part of the Zaporoza region, it practically forms a front line.
Axios also mentions another proposal for Kiev, and these are compensation and assistance in the reconstruction of the war -destroyed country. However, the document according to the server does not specify the source of funding.
The apple of weld – Crimea
Russian Americans on the other side suggested, for example, that of iure recognize Russian control of aewed Crimea, in fact I Russian occupation of territories in the south and east of Ukraine and the abolition of sanctions. At the same time, they offer a promise that Ukraine will not enter NATO.
It is not yet clear what the Russians or Ukrainians could nod for.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj in recent days stressed that he would follow the Constitution. For example, it clearly defines the Crimean Autonomous Republic as an integral part of Ukraine. Likewise, Crimea considers the vast majority of countries in the world to be Ukrainian.
Donald Trump of a green Greeny attitude that Ukraine will not legally recognize Crimea as Russian, criticized a few days ago with the words that similar statements are harmful to reach peace.
“Crimea has been lost many years ago,” Trump wrote to Sociti Truth Social.
Greenya responded by publishing the Crimean Declaration document from 2018, signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the First Trump Administration Mike Pompeo. The United States called on Russia to end the occupation of Crimea and refuse to recognize annexation.
In addition, the website recalls that in 2017 the US Congress passed the Act on sanctions against Russia, which prohibits the recognition of annexation of Ukrainian territories. The law also allows the congress to block any abolition of sanctions against Russia.
The Ukrainian website states in connection with the recognition of Crimea that Washington does not require the same step from Ukraine or the European Union, and Kiev continues to maintain its borders before 2014.
Russians “fine -tuning”
Meanwhile, Russia is talking about the need to solve, as Vladimir Putin, Nuansy, once defined.
“We are ready to reach an agreement, but there are still some specific points (…) that need to be fine -tuned, and we are dealing with,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview for.
Unless there is an agreement in the foreseeable future, Trump, as well as other US officials suggest that they can back out of the negotiations in which the US acts as intermediaries.
At Thursday’s press conference, Donald Trump said the US had a specific term to reach a peace agreement.
In the case of dates, Trump’s administration defined the goal of ending the Russian-Ukrainian war during the first 100 days Trump in office. This would mean that Russia and Ukraine would have to reach the agreement by the end of April.
