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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said immoderate determination connected joining the Board of Peace led by the U.S. to oversee the Gaza ceasefire program volition beryllium taken aft consultations with Moscow’s strategical partners.
“Regarding our information successful the ‘Peace Board’, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been instructed to survey the documents received by us, consult with our strategical partners connected this matter, and lone past volition we beryllium capable to respond to the invitation extended to us,” Mr. Putin said successful his televised opening remarks astatine the nationalist Security Council gathering precocious Wednesday (January 21, 2026) night.
“We person ever supported and proceed to enactment immoderate efforts aimed astatine strengthening planetary stability. We besides admit the existent U.S. administration’s publication to the hunt for a solution to the Ukrainian crisis,” Mr. Putin said, thanking U.S. President Trump for the invitation.
The Board of Peace led by Mr. Trump was primitively envisioned arsenic a tiny radical of satellite leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan.
Since then, the Trump administration’s ambitions person ballooned into a much sprawling concept, with Mr. Trump extending invitations to dozens of nations and hinting the committee volition soon broker planetary conflicts, similar a pseudo-U.N. Security Council.
Mr. Putin noted that the connection made to Russia was chiefly astir a colony successful West Asia and astir uncovering imaginable solutions to the pressing problems of the Palestinian radical and resolving the astir acute humanitarian problems successful the Gaza Strip.
“In this regard, I would similar to emphasise the astir important point. The cardinal is that the full process should person a affirmative interaction connected a semipermanent colony of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based connected the applicable decisions of the United Nations. And it is indispensable that the cardinal needs and wishes of the Palestinians beryllium taken into account. This concerns the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and its basal societal infrastructure, healthcare systems, h2o supply, and the constitution of a reliable nutrient supply,” Mr. Putin said and announced to donate USD 1 cardinal to the Peace Board.
“Even earlier we determine connected the contented of information successful the creation and enactment of the Peace Board, taking into relationship Russia’s peculiar narration with the Palestinian people, we could, I think, springiness $1 cardinal from Russian assets frozen nether the erstwhile U.S. administration,” Mr. Putin announced.
“I program to sermon each these issues with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with whom we would clasp talks time (Thursday),” Mr. Putin said.
The Palestinian person arrived successful Moscow connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) connected a two-day visit.
‘None of our business’, Putin says connected Greenland
With Mr. Trump’s request to get Greenland putting Denmark connected the borderline and rocking the unity of NATO, Mr. Putin said helium is not acrophobic astir the issue.
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“What happens to Greenland is nary of our business,” Mr. Putin said successful his televised remarks astatine the nationalist Security Council gathering precocious connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) night.
“Incidentally, Denmark has ever treated Greenland arsenic a colony and has been rather harsh, if not cruel, towards it. But that’s a antithetic substance entirely, and I uncertainty anyone’s funny successful it close now. It surely doesn’t interest us. I deliberation they’ll benignant it retired among themselves,” Mr. Putin said, reminding that successful 1917, Denmark had sold the Virgin Islands to the United States.
Mr. Putin besides recalled that successful 1867, Russia had sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million.
