Getty imagesThe Kremlin has spoken of a adjacent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelanski of Ukraine, as Donald Trump renewed his calls for the two leaders to discuss the war to end the war in Ukraine.
Pushing for a bilateral meeting last week after meeting Putin with the US President in Alaska, and welcomed seven European leaders and Zelansky at the White House on Monday.
Trump admitted that there was “a difficult one” to resolve the conflict and believed that Russian President was not interested in ending enmity.
“We are going to find out about President Putin in the next few weeks,” he said on Tuesday. “It is possible that he does not want to make a deal.”
Putin had to face a “rough situation”, if it were so, Trump said, without offering any details.
The Russian President on Monday told Trump that he was “open” to the idea of direct conversation with Ukraine, but the next day Foreign Minister Sergei Lavarov reduced the already unclear commitment.
Any meeting “slowly … will start with the specialist level and then go through all the necessary stages,” he said, repeating the constant Kremlin line.
Dimitri Poolnsky, a Russian Deputy Representative of the United Nations, told the BBC “None [had] The “opportunity for direct talks” dismissed, but it should not be a meeting for a meeting “.
On Tuesday, it was reported that Putin suggested to Trump that Zelanceci could travel to Moscow for talks, Ukraine was never likely to accept.
This proposal may be a way to pursue an alternative to Russia, which may not probably agree to the Kiev made so far.
In the last few days, the talks have renewed Trump to the Gulf between the complications of the war and the demands of Moscow and the status of Kiev.
He said that a lot of ceasefire he said that he could not agree to Putin – and now the US President has said that Ukraine and Russia should go directly to a permanent peace deal – but some headways were created in terms of safety guarantee for Ukraine.
Zelanski and European leaders have assured Trump that such commitments will be paramount for sovereignty of Kiev in the event of peace deal.
On Tuesday, Trump said that the US was ready to help European people “by air” if he provided shoes on the ground in Ukraine in a ceasefire or peace deal, although he refused to deploy American troops.
However, the US President did not go into the nuances of whether such aerial support could cause intelligence or use fighter jets and war planes.
While Trump’s commitments remain unclear, France and UK -led coalition stated that it was working to strengthen plans for an assurance force that could be sent to Ukraine when the enmity ends.
After a virtual meeting of the group on Tuesday, a spokesperson for a downing Street said that the group would meet American counterparts to further strengthen the plan to give a strong security guarantee in the coming days.
Getty imagesAfter his summit with Putin and the latest talks with Zelansky, Trump now thinks that direct conversation between Ukraine and Russia could bring a peace deal closer – although he admitted that there was “tremendous bad blood” between the two leaders.
Last time he met in 2019. Since then, Moscow’s war on Kiev has led to a number of number of casualties as well as airstrikes on widespread destruction and civil goals.
Putin considers Zelansky illegitimate and is responsible for the growing proximity to the west of Ukraine. Now over the years, he has made baseless claims about the Kiev ruled by the “Nav-Nazi regime” and said that any ceasefire with Ukraine will require a change in the leadership of Kiev.
Russia also has little interest in agreeing to interact, while its soldiers have upper hand on the front line.
Nevertheless, European leaders and Zelancesi have spoken in favor of the idea of bilateral meeting. The Ukrainian President said on Monday that he was open to the “any format” to meet Putin, while European was giving further views to the possible summit locations.
By supporting direct negotiations with enthusiasm, they are hoping to convince Trump that Putin should not be ready to take steps to end the war to believe to go back to a tough stance against Moscow.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s European partners seem less optimistic than Trump that a solution of conflict can occur within access.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron called Putin “a hunter, and an oogre at our door” and expressed “greatest doubt” that Russian President was ready to work towards peace.
Finnish President Alexander Stub said that Putin was “rarely being trusted”, saying that he was doubting a meeting with Zelansky.
A more high-level dialogue is planned for the coming days as there are questions on Trump’s support level for Europe.
The UK military head, Admiral Tony Radkin, is visiting Washington to discuss the deployment of an assurance force in Ukraine, while NATO’s military chiefs are expected to have a virtual meeting on Wednesday.
