{"id":47954,"date":"2025-12-03T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=47954"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:16:55","slug":"russia-ready-for-war-with-europe-putin-says-as-us-peace-talks-end-without-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/12\/03\/russia-ready-for-war-with-europe-putin-says-as-us-peace-talks-end-without-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia \u2018ready\u2019 for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin<\/a> has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In remarks to Russian media, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that after a five-hour meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner<\/a>, the two sides were \u201cneither further nor closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There is a lot of work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ushakov called the meeting \u201cextremely useful, constructive, and informed\u201d, but nonetheless said the two sides had not come to an agreement on key issues, including the potential lines of territorial control in a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe did not discuss \u2026 specific American proposals, but discussed the essence of what is embedded in these American documents,\u201d Ushakov said of the peace plan presented by the US side. \u201cWe could agree with some things \u2026 and the president also did not hide our critical and even negative attitude towards a number of proposals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some aspects of the negotiations would not be revealed, Ushakov said, and he indicated that another summit between Trump and Putin was not imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said later that \u201csome progress\u201d was made on security guarantees. \u201cWhat we have tried to do, and I think have made some progress, is figure out, what could the Ukrainians live with that gives them security guarantees for the future,\u201d Rubio told Fox News. He added that the US hoped a compromise would allow them \u201cnot just to rebuild their economy, but to prosper as a country\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relatively downbeat assessments of Tuesday night\u2019s diplomacy follows combative opening statements from Putin as Witkoff and Kushnerarrived for talks at the Kremlin, in which he accused European powers of sabotaging peace in Ukraine and that \u201cEuropean demands\u201d on ending the war were \u201cnot acceptable to Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEurope is preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine,\u201d Putin said, adding: \u201cRussia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin did not clarify which European demands he found unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are on the side of war,\u201d Putin said of European powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witkoff, on his sixth trip to Moscow this year, was expected to present Putin with an updated version of a US peace proposal drafted with input from a senior Russian official and reworked to make it more acceptable to Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he was \u201cawaiting signals\u201d from the US delegation after its meeting with Putin, in an intense round of shuttle diplomacy that the Trump administration has claimed is its best chance yet of bringing an end to the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there remains significant skepticism that Russia is ready to accept any concessions, rather than continue the war and await a further breakdown in relations between the Trump White House and its European allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am ready to receive all the signals and ready for a meeting with President Trump,\u201d Zelenskyy posted on X. \u201cEverything depends on today\u2019s discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several US media outlets reported that Zelenskyy was expected to meet with Witkoff and Kushner in Europe after the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short video feed from the Kremlin showed the two small delegations sitting on opposite sides of an oval white table, with Putin seated next to his advisers Kirill Dmitriev and Yuri Ushakov. Putin asked Witkoff and Kushner about a short tour of Moscow they had taken before the meeting, with Witkoff calling it a \u201cmagnificent city\u201d. The feed then cut out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two Trump allies arrived in Moscow on Tuesday after meeting Ukrainian officials at the weekend in Florida to discuss revisions to the original 28-point peace plan<\/a>, which overwhelmingly favoured Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy, on a diplomatic push to rally support among European capitals that have backed changes to the original plan, said in Paris that the updated version of the proposal \u201clooks better\u201d but emphasised it was \u201cnot over yet\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy has objected in particular to provisions in the 28-point plan that would have required Ukraine to surrender territory in the east that it currently controls, and impose limits on the size of its military. He has also demanded clear, enforceable security guarantees from the west to prevent a future Russian invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jared Kushner (left), Kirill Dmitriev (centre), the head of Russia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, and Steve Witkoff arrive to meet Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. Photograph: Kristina Kormilitsyna\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Putin, for his part, has said that only the original US proposal could serve as a basis for further talks, while also stating that it required significant revisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite intense shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks, which has produced several revisions to the US peace plan, bridging the gap remains difficult: Russia\u2019s maximalist demands in effect require Ukraine\u2019s capitulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said in remarks to a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the Ukraine war was a \u201cmess\u201d and not an easy situation to resolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin\u2019s comments appeared aimed at driving a wedge between Washington and European capitals. European officials have had some success in pushing back against the original US plan, though it remains unclear to what extent Washington is taking their concerns into account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, earlier on Tuesday said Putin and Witkoff would discuss the \u201cunderstandings\u201d reached recently between Washington and Kyiv, adding that Russia remained open to talks but would insist on achieving the goals of its \u201cspecial operation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those goals amount to sweeping demands that would severely erode Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty, including deep cuts to its armed forces, a ban on western military assistance, far-reaching limits on political independence, and the handover of Ukrainian-controlled territory in the east of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the eve of the talks with the US delegation in Moscow, Putin claimed Russian forces had taken control of the strategic city of Pokrovsk<\/a> in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dressed in military fatigues during a visit to a command centre on Monday evening, the Russian president hailed what he called the \u201cimportant\u201d capture of Pokrovsk, once a major logistical hub for the Ukrainian army, though Ukrainian officials later disputed the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has spent more than a year attempting to seize the frontline hub, seen as a gateway to Donetsk, and has suffered heavy losses in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ukrainian analysts and military bloggers have acknowledged that Russia now holds most of Pokrovsk, with battlefield maps showing its forces largely in control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buoyed up by recent gains at the front, Putin has indicated in recent weeks that the Russian military was prepared to keep fighting if diplomacy faltered, repeatedly emphasising that his forces remained on the offensive on the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian leader also on Tuesday threatened retaliation against Ukraine\u2019s ports and shipping after Kyiv in recent days struck several vessels in Russia\u2019s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian president threatened that Moscow would \u201cstep up strikes on Ukrainian ports and on any ships entering them\u201d in response to attacks on Russian tankers, which he described as \u201cpiracy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Echoing the Kremlin, Russian state media on Tuesday struck a confident tone before the US visit. Komsomolskaya Pravda, often described as \u201cPutin\u2019s favourite newspaper\u201d, wrote that the president\u2019s remarks suggested \u201cmore and more Ukrainian territory is coming under our control \u2013 and that next time Russia\u2019s terms may be tougher\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper implied that Moscow viewed the latest US-Ukrainian talks as a dead end, claiming Kyiv was refusing to capitulate. \u201cThe US has tried for the third time in the past 10 days to pressure Ukraine, and Washington has once again failed,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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