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War in UkraineCrowd with Trump: Putin straight in his boots
The Russian President said to his American counterpart on Thursday that Russia “will not give up its objectives” … while saying that they are open to the pursuit of negotiations.
The sixth telephone discussion between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump since his return to the White House lasted about an hour. She was described as “frank” (illustration photo).
AFPRussia “will not give up its objectives” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday in a telephone conversation with his American counterpart Donald Trump, while saying that he is open to the continuation of negotiations with kyiv.
This discussion between the two men, the sixth since the return of the republican billionaire to the White House, intervened the day after Washington’s announcement of the judgment of the delivery of certain weapons to Ukraine, more than three and a half years after the start of the Russian offensive.
The decision of its main supplier in military equipment is likely to put kyiv in a difficult position at a time when Russian troops continue to advance on the front. On the move to Denmark Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Europeans to increase their support in the face of what is akin to American disengagement.
The exchange between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on Thursday, which lasted about an hour, was qualified before journalists as “franc” by the diplomatic advisor to the Kremlin, Iouri Ouchakov.
They mentioned the conflict in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East, as well as the relations between their two countries.
Russia “continues to seek a political and negotiated conflict solution” with Ukraine, the Russian president told his counterpart, according to Ouchakov.
Vladimir Putin “underlined the will of the Russian party to continue the negotiation process” started in Istanbul, where two sessions of Russo-Ukrainian direct talks have recently taken place with meager results.
“Our president also said that Russia would pursue its objectives, namely the elimination of well -known deep causes that led to the current situation,” insisted Mr. Ouchakov.
“And Russia will not give up these objectives,” he added.
Moscow claims in particular from Ukraine that it gives up to him four partially occupied regions, in addition to the Crimea annexed in 2014, and that it renounces to enter NATO. Unacceptable conditions for kyiv.
MM. Putin and Trump also mentioned conflicts in the Middle East, including the recent war between Iran and Israel and Syria, the Russian Head of State having argued for a regulation “exclusively by political and diplomatic means”, according to Mr. Ouchakov.
The two presidents “confirmed their mutual interest in the implementation of a series of promising economic projects, especially in the fields of energy and space research,” he noted.
(AFP)
