Russia says no Ukraine compromise reached after Putin meets Trump envoys
Russia and the US did not reach a compromise on a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine after a five-hour Kremlin meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s top envoys, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly complained that ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II has been one…
Russia and the US did not reach a compromise on a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine after a five-hour Kremlin meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s top envoys, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
Trump has repeatedly complained that ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II has been one of the elusive foreign policy aims of his presidency. The US president has at times scolded both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Talks in Moscow between Putin and Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner went past midnight.
Afterward, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, said: “Compromises have not yet been found.”
“There is still a lot of work to be done,” Ushakov told reporters at a briefing in the Kremlin.
Putin reacted negatively to some US proposals, Ushakov said. Witkoff went to the US embassy in Moscow after the talks to brief the White House, Ushakov said.
