Moscow: “Constructive meeting” between Putin and the American envoy | EUROtoday

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According to Jurij Ushakov, councilor of Vladimir Putin for overseas affairs, on the assembly that passed off on Friday on the Kremlin, the eightieth anniversary of one other assembly was positively influenced: the one among the many American and Soviet troops on Elba, on April 25, 1945. The three -hour comparability between Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff – the correspondent for Donald Trump on the fourth go to to Russia in a number of weeks – It was “constructive and very useful” to additional deliver the positions of Moscow and Washington nearer to a number of worldwide fronts and Ukraine. And right here, above all, Ushakov has let him glimpse a step ahead: “The discussion – he said – focused in particular on the possibility of resuming direct negotiations between representatives of the Russian Federation and Ukraine”.

Ushakov’s phrases may very well be linked to the openings expressed in current days by each Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, keen to cope with the Russians following the entry into drive of a ceased the credible hearth. With the failure of the primary direct negotiations between Russians and Ukrainians, after the invasion of February 2022, within the following October Zelensky forbids by decree to barter with the Russian president: thus responding to unilateral annexation to the Russian Federation of the 4 partially occupied Ukrainian areas.

On the desk of a future negotiation, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators ought to discover the 2 variations of the so -called “peace plan for Trump”: the American one, which legitimizes a lot of the Russian requests ranging from the American formal recognition of Crimea and the closing of NATO in Kiev, and that with Ukrainian and European counter -proposals. Which refers to a future negotiating the dialogue on probably the most controversial points, setting a complete and unconditional hearth as its first important step.

The full texts of the 2 hypotheses of settlement have been printed by the Reuters Agency, and spotlight the appreciable distance that negotiators will probably be referred to as to scale back within the numerous areas, from the ensures for the security of Ukraine to the penalties and the reimbursement of warfare harm. The territorial query, nonetheless, stays on the heart of the disputes: and right here on the entrance line it’s all the time Crimea, who yesterday in an interview with Time Magazine Trump mentioned that “he will remain in Russia, and this Zelensky understands it”.

Recognizing Russian sovereignty on Crimea, as an alternative repeating Ukrainians, is a violation of the Constitution but additionally of worldwide legal guidelines on borders’ safety. “Our position is unchanged -Zelensky said yesterday -: only the Ukrainian people have the right to decide which territories are Ukrainians. And the Constitution states that all the temporarily occupied territories belong to Ukraine “. However, Zelensky admitted that Ukrainian forces are unable to regain Crimea militarily: «It is true that Trump says -he defined -, we shouldn’t have sufficient weapons or males. But there are different prospects: financial and diplomatic pressures ».