Moscow (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Russian President Putin expressed readiness for compromise over Ukraine, willing to negotiate with Trump and Ukraine’s authorities, but aimed for legitimacy.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he was willing to compromise over Ukraine in possible discussions with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump on concluding the war and had no prerequisites for initiating talks with the Ukrainian authorities.
A few days earlier, incoming President Donald Trump stated that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy should be equipped to agree with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring a halt to the almost three-year-old Ukraine war. “Gotta make a deal,” Trump expressed at a news gathering at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump expressed he would speak to Putin and Zelenskiy regarding bringing the fighting in Ukraine to an end, stating he is disturbed by photos of carnage from the dispute.
What did Putin say about negotiating with Donald Trump?
As reported by Reuter, Vladimir Putin answering the queries on state TV during his annual Q&A session with Russians, briefed a journalist for a U.S. news channel that he was ready to sit with Trump, whom he expressed he had not spoken to for years. Questioned what he might be able to show Trump, Putin overlooked an assertion that Moscow was in a weak position, stating that Russia had got much more powerful since he entered troops into Ukraine in 2022.
How does Putin view Russia’s position in the Ukraine conflict?
“We have always stated that we are ready for talks and compromises,” Putin stated, after declaring that Russian forces, extending across the entire front, were driving towards reaching their primary objectives in Ukraine. “Soon, those Ukrainians who desire to resist will run out, in my view, soon there will be no one there who wants to fight. We are ready, but the other flank needs to be ready for both talks and compromises.”
What are Putin’s conditions for talks with Ukraine’s authorities?
Russian President said that Russia had no requirements to start discussions with Ukraine and was ready to deal with anyone, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. But he expressed any agreement could only be inked with Ukraine’s legitimate authorities, which currently the Kremlin believed to be only the Ukrainian parliament.
Zelenskiy, whose period has technically passed but who has postponed an election because of the fight, would require to be re-elected for Moscow to regard him as a legitimate signatory to any agreement to ensure it was legally impervious, expressed Putin. Concerning the continued existence of Ukrainian soldiers in Russia’s Kursk area, Putin expressed Kyiv’s soldiers would be forced out, but refused to say exactly when that would occur.
How does Moscow plan to handle its military bases in Syria?
Regarding developments in Syria, he said Russia had made suggestions to Syria’s latest rulers about Russia’s military bases there and most concerned persons that Moscow had talked to on the issue preferred them staying. Moscow would be required to consider whether the military presence should remain or not, he said, but talks about the extinction of Russian influence in the Middle East were inflated.
