The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is expected CNN Sunday after returning from what he described as a “positive” meeting with Putin in Moscow.
“I hope there is a call with both presidents this week, and we also continue to involve and talk with the Ukrainians,” said Witkoff, who met with Putin on Thursday night, and added that he thought the conversation between Trump and Putin would be “really good and positive.”
Trump is trying to win the support of Putin for a high fire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week, since both parties continued to exchanged strong air attacks during the weekend and Russia approached to expel the Ukrainian forces of their support point in the Western Russian region of Kursk.
Trump said in a publication on social networks on Friday that there was “a very good possibility that this horrible and bloody war can finally come to an end.” He also said he had “requested” that Putin does not kill the thousands of Ukrainian troops that Russia is expelling from Kursk.
Putin said he would honor Trump’s request to avoid the life of Ukrainian troops if they surrender. The Kremlin also said on Friday that Putin had sent to Trump a message about his high fire plan through Witkoff, expressing “cautious optimism” that an agreement could be reached to end the conflict.
In separate appearances in Sunday’s shows, Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, emphasized that there are still challenges that are resolved before Russia accepts a high fire, and much less a final peaceful resolution to the war.
Asked about alphabet Whether the United States would accept a peace agreement in which Russia was allowed to keep the sections of eastern Ukraine that has seized, Waltz replied: “Are we going to move every Russian away from every centimeter of Ukrainian soil?” He added that the negotiations had to be based on “reality.”
Rubio told him CBS A final peace agreement “would imply a lot of hard work, concessions of Russia and Ukraine”, and that it would be difficult to even start those negotiations “as long as they shoot each other.”
Additional measures
Trump warned that unless the fire is reached, the conflict between Moscow and kyiv has the spiral potential in World War Tres. His administration took action last week to induce greater cooperation in a high fire.
On Saturday, Trump said that the role of General Keith Kellogg had been reduced from the special envoy for Ukraine and Russia to Ukraine only after Russian officials tried to exclude him from peace conversations.
A license that allows US energy transactions with Russian financial institutions expired last week, according to the Trump administration, which increases Putin pressure to reach a peace agreement on Ukraine.
The US Department of Treasury is looking for possible sanctions to the Russian oil specialties and oil field services, said a source familiar with the matter, deepening the steps already taken by Biden.
