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Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed about contacts with President Donald Trump's envoys connected U.S. proposals for a imaginable Ukrainian bid deal, and Moscow volition present formulate its position, the Kremlin said connected Wednesday (December 24, 2925).
Mr. Trump, who says helium wants to beryllium remembered arsenic a peacemaker, has repeatedly complained that ending the Ukraine warfare — the deadliest successful Europe since World War Two — has been the astir elusive overseas argumentation purpose of his presidency.
Ukraine and its European allies are disquieted that Mr. Trump could merchantability retired Ukraine and leave European powers to ft the measure for supporting a devastated Ukraine aft Russian forces took 12-17 quadrate km (4.6-6.6 quadrate miles) of Ukraine per time successful 2025.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that envoy Kirill Dmitriev had briefed Mr. Putin connected the travel to Miami for contacts with Mr. Trump's envoys. But Mr. Peskov refused to beryllium drawn connected Russia's absorption to the proposals, oregon the nonstop format of the documents, saying that the Kremlin was not going to pass via the media.
"All the main parameters of the Russian side's presumption are good known to our colleagues from the United States," Mr. Peskov told reporters. "Now we mean to formulate our presumption based connected the accusation that was received by the caput of State and proceed our contacts in the precise adjacent aboriginal done the existing channels that are presently working."
Mr. Putin has said successful caller weeks that his conditions for bid are that Ukraine should cede the astir 5,000 quadrate km of Donbas that it inactive controls and that Kyiv should officially renounce its volition to articulation the NATO subject alliance.
Asked astir the format of the documents brought backmost to Moscow by Mr. Dmitriev from Miami, Mr. Peskov said it was not due to talk to the media astir it. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, successful remarks to reporters released by his bureau on Wednesday (December 24), said Ukrainian and U.S. delegations had inched person to finalising a 20-point program astatine the talks implicit the play successful Miami.
But Zelenskiy said Ukraine and the United States had not recovered communal crushed connected demands that Ukraine cede the parts of Donbas that it inactive controls — oregon connected the aboriginal of the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant, which is controlled by Russian forces.
