Vladimir Putin says he reached ‘understandings’ with Donald Trump over war’s end
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had reached “understanding” at the end of the Ukrainian War in Alaska last month with US President Donald Trump.
However, he did not say whether he would accept peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was mediating by Trump, who gave Putin as a deadline for Putin’s response.
Speaking during a summit in China, Putin continued to defend the decision to invade Ukraine by accusing the West in the West once again.
Following the Alaska meeting, US special ambassador Steve Witkoff said that although Putin has not yet approved Moscow, he accepted security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a future potential peace agreement.
Putin was talking at Tianjin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, where he met Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi.
He thanked Chinese and Indian leaders for their support and efforts to “facilitate the solution of the Ukrainian crisis”.
China and Russia are the greatest buyers of Russian crude oil, which has criticized the support of the Russian economy, which was beaten by war from the West.
In his speech, Putin said in his meeting with Trump in Alaska.
At the same time, he reiterated his opinion that “this crisis was not triggered by Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but was the result of a coup in Ukraine, supported by the West and provoked by the West.”
He also attributed the war to the “constant attempts to drag the West to Ukraine to NATO”.
Russian President has constantly opposed the idea of participating in the Western military alliance of Ukraine.
In 2014, Putin seized Crimea and Russian deputies caught a part of Eastern Ukraine. Years later, in February 2022, Putin later ordered Russia’s full -scale Ukrainian invasion.
Putin’s comments are coming days after Russia started the second largest air strike in Ukraine in the war.
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said Putin had faced a deadline set by Trump to accept Peace talks with Zelensky.
If the Russian leader does not accept, Macron said, “President Putin will show President Trump again,” Macron said.
However, in an interview with CNN, on August 22, Trump gave Putin “a few weeks” to respond to a series of ultimatum and final delivery on a series of ultimatum and final delivery.
Trump had previously said he could solve the Ukrainian war in a day.
After meeting with Putin last month, Trump reduced his cease -fire request and called for a permanent peace agreement.
He also met with the best European leaders who paid an emergency visit to Washington DC with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
As part of the peace agreement, Trump insisted that “entering NATO by Ukraine”.
However, he implied that Europe would be the “first defense line” and that the United States would be involved.
Im We will give them a good protection, dedi he said, that it would not mean sending US troops to Ukraine.
Steve Witkoff, the president’s special ambassador, told CNN that he accepted Putin’s security guarantees.
Authorized, the United States and Europe “Article 5 to meet a security guarantee of a 5th article 5,” and member states should defend another member who has been attacked, indicating that the NATO article will refer to the article, he said.
Zelensky said he expects a framework for the security guarantees on paper as soon as possible this week.
However, last Friday, Russia, the Western proposals “unilaterally designed to include Russia as a clearly designed” criticized Kiev’i “strategic provocateur”, he added.
Russian attacks continued. Last Thursday, Moscow fired 629 drones and missiles in Kiev, and so far killed 23 people in one of the biggest air strikes of the war, which led to anger from European leaders.
Since then, Germany and France have promised to put pressure on Russia to accept an agreement.
Meanwhile, Zelensky rejected a buffer region proposals with Russia as part of the peace agreement.
He accused Russia of being ready for diplomacy and looking for ways to postpone the end of the war.
