Kremlin Yuri Ushakov advisor reported Thursday that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and his United States counterpart, Donald Trump, according to Russian news agencies. “At the suggestion of the US party, an agreement was essentially reached to hold a bilateral meeting at the highest level,” said Ushakov. “Now we are beginning the concrete preparations along with our American colleagues.”
On the eve, he had already revealed from the Oval Office his intention to meet “very soon” with the Russian president to deal with the end of the war in Ukraine. That meeting could “be the end of the road” to get to La Paz, said the Republican just a few hours after his special envoy,
This face to face conversation will be the first among the leaders of both countries since Putin and Joe Biden gathered in Geneva in 2021, eight months before Moscow launched their offensive on Ukraine.
The announcement of this meeting occurs on the eve of the deadline Trump had set to impose sanctions against Russia and the countries that maintain commercial relations with him if he does not stop war in Ukraine. In a first advance of punishment measures, the White House announced Wednesday that bending, from 25% to 50%. New Delhi is the second largest buyer in the world of Russian crude, only behind China.
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