Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said on Saturday that preparations are underway to hold a face -to -face meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister on Saturday. It is a clear departure from Western efforts to isolate Moscow to its war in Ukraine.
Speaking to the Russian government media, Sergey Ryabkov said that the potential Putin Trump Summit could include extensive talks on global issues, not only the war in Ukraine.
He said, “The question is about starting to move towards normalizing relations between our countries, and finding ways to solve the most severe and possibly dangerous situations, many of which are, Ukraine among them.”
But he said that the efforts made to organize such a meeting at an early stage, and that achieving this will require “the most intense preparatory work.”
Ryabkov added that the American and Russian envoys may meet during the next two weeks to pave the way for more talks between senior officials.
Trump on Friday told reporters that he wanted to meet Putin, but he denied European media reports that he was scheduled to coincide with the summit of victory day in Russia on May 9.
The meeting of the Russian and United States actors in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday approved the start of working to end the war in Ukraine and improve their diplomatic and economic relations, which is unusual about US foreign policy during the Trump era. Senior American officials suggested that Ukraine be abandoned its goals of joining NATO and keeping 20 % of its lands that Russia seized.
After the meeting, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Associated Press that the two sides have agreed widely to follow three goals: to restore employees in their embassies; To create a high -level team to support peace talks in Ukraine; Explore closer relations and economic cooperation.
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He stressed, however, that the talks, which were attended by his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, and other Russian officials and American officials, were a conversation, and more work should be done. Lavrov, for his part, praised the meeting that he was “very useful.”
There were no Ukrainian officials at the Saudi meeting, which slowly besieged in their besieged country but losing more steadily than the numerous Russian forces, after nearly three years of Moscow launched a comprehensive invasion of its smaller neighbor.
Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinski said that his country will not accept any outcome of the talks since he did not participate, and stopped his trip to Saudi Arabia scheduled for last Wednesday. The European allies also expressed their concerns about their marginalization.
Trump seems to relieve Kyiv’s criticism
On Friday, Trump seemed to back down from his previous comments, which blamed Kiev for the start of the war, but he insisted that Zelinski and former US President Joe Biden had to do more to reconcile with Putin.
“He attacked Russia, but they should not allow him to attack.”
On February 24, 2022, Russia crossed the border, in a comprehensive invasion, Putin sought to justify it by falsely saying that it is necessary to protect civilian speaking civilians in eastern Ukraine and prevent the country from joining NATO.
Later on Friday, in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that the war “does not affect the United States much. It is on the other side of the ocean. It affects Europe.”
It seems that Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Urban, whose position in Ukraine disagreed sharply from the European main current, is repeating some of the last speech of the Trump administration on Saturday. The neighbor’s neighbor, who pushed the war, described a “buffer zone” between Russia and NATO, and Budapest implicitly prevented Kiev’s efforts to join the European Union.
Thousands of people who were waving blue and yellow Ukrainian panels went to the Russian embassy in London on Saturday, demanding more support and place on the table in talks to end a three -year war.
The demonstrators chanted, “Trump is not a friend, you are a traitor to Ukraine.” The organizers called for the withdrawal of Russian forces and the increase in military aid to strengthen Kyiv’s hand.
British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer is scheduled to visit next week for talks focusing on Ukraine. He confirmed that decisions about the future of the country cannot be taken without the involvement of Kyiv.
The Prime Minister’s Office said that Starmer spoke to Zelinski on Saturday and reiterated “iron support in the United Kingdom to Ukraine and a commitment to secure a just and lasting peace to end the illegal war in Russia.”
It seemed that the European Union allies in Ukraine gather around it, as the country’s foreign minister held on Friday and Saturday a series of bilateral calls that he said aimed at coordinating diplomatic efforts at a time of great uncertainty about the position of Washington. According to Andrii Sybiha sites on social media, he was talking to senior diplomats from France, Spain, Poland, Finland and the Baltic countries, among others.
“The allowing to succeed will have severe consequences for stability and the way every family in Europe and the United States will pay the cost of recovery by ordinary people.”
– With additional files from Global News
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