The Russian President assured Trump that Russia “will not give up on the goals” in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump said he “made no progress” in the sense of a ceasefire in Ukraine during a telephone conversation tonight with his Russian homologist Vladimir Putin.
“No, I didn’t make any progress” during the conversation, Trump told journalists, adding “Not being satisfied” with the conflictstarted with the For almost three and a half years.
According to Putin Diplomatic Counselor Yuri Ushakov, Russian President has secured Trump that Russia “will not give up on the goals” in Ukraine, although it is open to continuing negotiations with Kiev.
“Our president also said Russia will continue to continue its goals, namely the elimination of the well -known deep causes that led to the current situation,” the journalists told.
“And Russia will not renounce these goals,” he insisted.
Kremlin said Trump proposed to Putin a quick end of hostilities in Ukraine.
The sixth telephone conversation between Putin and Trump since the US president returned to the White House, which lasted about an hour, was described as “frank” by the Kremlin diplomatic counselor.
The Russian leader “stressed the will of the Russian party to pursue the negotiation process” started in Istanbul, where two direct negotiation sessions between Russia and Ukraine, with scarce results, told Ushakov told journalists.
Russia requires 4 partially occupied regions
Moscow requires, in particular, that Ukraine gives him four partially occupied regions, in addition to the Crimea annexed in 2014, and to resign in integration into the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (), conditions that Kiev considers “unacceptable”.
At the same time, Kremlin stressed that Putin and Trump did not address the cessation of the supply of certain types of US weaponry to Ukraine, announced this week by Washington.
Trump was also confronted with including anti -aircraft defense missiles, but without going into detail about the ongoing contacts to reverse the decision.
“We are providing weapons to Ukraine. We are working with them to try to help them,” he said.
The former president, Joe Biden, “emptied our entire country giving them weapons, and we have to make sure we have enough for us,” he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Washington and Kiev are “clarifying” US military aid that is still being supplied to Ukraine.
“Ukraine and the United States are clarifying all details regarding defense support, including air defense components,” Zelensky said during his daily speech.
For its part, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga wrote on social network X that Ukraine is ready to “buy or rent” anti -aircraft defenses to cope with the “large number of drones, bombs and missiles” launched by Russia against the country.
