Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
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All eyes are on Russia this week.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is scheduled to visit Russia on Monday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a US-backed 19-year peace plan.
Ukraine has tentatively backed the peace proposals, putting the ball back in Russia’s court, which can also work with its framework agreement.
The final plan is a modified version of the original 28-point plan, reported a few weeks agoHe invented the USA and Moscow without the participation of Ukraine and won the favor of Russia.
Russia will be ready to talk about the proposals, which have changed after last week’s diplomacy and discussions between US and Ukrainian officials and speeches in Florida on Sunday.
Whether or not Putin will play ball when it comes to a new peace plan is a big unknown, but whether Russia has as much to gain from it, and When it comes to stories about future peace, US President Donald Trump has his ear.
The Kremlin confirmed that Vitkoff and Putin will meet on Tuesday.
Is Putin playing ball?
Putin and the Kremlin, and Kremlin officials warn of Russia’s stated peace plan, Russia’s willingness to talk But the war in Ukraine may not end soon.
“In general, we agree that this can be a basis for future agreements,” Putin said during his visit to Kyrgyzstan. He said that the United States took a position “at the expense” of Russia’s peace, and that Moscow was ready for “serious discussions” with Witkoff.
In this pool, Russian state agency Sputnik reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the meeting of the heads of states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at the Presidential Residence in Bishkek on November 27, 2002.
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But Putin praised Russian aid in Ukraine and told reporters that it would stop when Ukrainian troops withdraw from their positions.
If they didn’t, Putin said, Russian forces would have achieved their goals and were unwilling to give up one of Moscow’s main tasks of fully controlling Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War noted on Sunday that Russian military bloggers were skeptical about the compromise over territorial claims in Ukraine.
“Voices in the Russian information space are likely to reject the Kremlin’s proposed peace plan or any iteration of it, as the Kremlin considers these efforts official and an obstacle to Russia’s goals around the world,” ISW analysts noted Sunday.
A “delicate” process
The latest diplomatic cuts on peace between Ukraine and Russia, and the White House’s announcement that war should begin, come after some dream of a cease-fire.
President Trump, based on his support for Ukraine, has appeared at times, To support Russia’s needs in Ukraine, Kadet annexed the territory to Moscow as part of a peace treaty. Then he said that he could conquer all the lands of the Kievan forces and conquer his lands and decorate the fish in peace.
Following talks with Ukrainian officials on Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Ruberio spoke of a peace deal that was “fragile” and that Russia was involved in any deal.
Those four hours of presentations, which included Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as a Ukrainian delegation led by National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rumerov, worked, but much remains to be done.
“So there’s still a lot of work to be done, but today, I think there’s been some progress made today, but I think they’ve made some progress,” Rubio said after the talks.