Just one month before the war in Ukraine enters its third year, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this Friday that he is “ready” to address the donald trump negotiations on the conflict, agencies reported international press.
“I won’t dwell on it, but I can only say that the current president declared that he was ready to work together,” Putin said.
“We have always said it, and I want to emphasize it once again, that we are ready for these negotiations on Ukrainian affairs,” added the president, responding to a journalist from Russian state television.
For his part, the Ukrainian ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, stated that Putin wants to “manipulate” Trump.
“He wants to manipulate the desire of the president of the United States of America to reach peace,” but “I am convinced that no Russian manipulation can succeed,” he considered.
The new political scenario is taking shape when Russian troops have been slowly advancing on the eastern front for several months and are close to the city of Pokrovsk, a key position for military logistics and the coal industry, the main economic sector in the Donbas region. , in eastern Ukraine.
Negotiation under threat
Putin’s statements come after Trump insisted in recent days on his desire to end the war in Ukraine through an agreement between the parties and even threatened Moscow with sanctions and tariffs if it did not agree to an agreement with kyiv.
“If we don’t make a ‘deal’, and soon, I have no choice but to impose high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on everything Russia sells to the United States and several other countries,” the Republican noted this week on his Truth network. Social.
Trump remembers the war in Ukraine and threatens Russia with sanctions and tariffs
Trump affirmed that he does not seek to harm Russia and that he has always had a “very good relationship with President Putin,” but he made it clear that if the Kremlin is not willing to stop the weapons, his government could force it to do so.
“We can do it the easy way or the hard way,” he said.
His statements came after, after taking office for his second term, Trump stated that Putin “is not doing it right” and that with his efforts to maintain the war he is destroying Russia.
In addition, he assured that Zelensky “wants to reach an agreement,” but said he did not know if Putin wants the same. “Maybe not. “I don’t know,” he said.
In this regard, he announced that he would be able to meet “very soon” with his Russian counterpart to discuss these and other issues, something to which he returned in subsequent days.
Russia’s first response came in the voice of its deputy ambassador to the UN, Dimitri Polyanskiy, who noted that “it is not simply the question of ending the war. It is above all the question of addressing the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.”
In addition, Polyanskiy commented that Moscow needs clarity about what the agreement advocated by the US president would entail and pointed to Trump’s responsibility in achieving an agreement that is favorable to Russian interests.
“We have to see what ‘deal’ means in President Trump’s reasoning,” the diplomat said.
