Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in the US proposal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin says particular proposals in a U S plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin indicating in comments published Thursday that any deal is still specific options off U S President Donald Trump has set in motion the majority of intense diplomatic push to stop the fighting since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of its neighbor nearly four years ago But the effort has once again run into demands that are hard to reconcile especially over whether Ukraine must give up land to Russia and how it can be kept safe from any future aggression by Moscow Trump s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to meet with Ukraine s lead negotiator Rustem Umerov later Thursday in Miami for further talks according to a senior Trump administration official who wasn t authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity Putin disclosed his five-hour talks Tuesday in the Kremlin with Witkoff and Kushner were necessary and useful but also arduous work and particular proposals were unacceptable Putin spoke to the India In current times TV channel before he landed Thursday in New Delhi for a state visit Ahead of the broadcast of the full interview Russian state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti quoted particular of his remarks in it Tass quoted Putin as saying that in Tuesday s talks the sides had to go through each point of the U S peace proposal which is why it took so long This was a necessary conversation a very concrete one he reported with provisions that Moscow was ready to discuss while others we can t agree to Trump revealed Wednesday that Witkoff and Kushner came away from their marathon session confident that he wants to find an end to the war Their impression was very strongly that he d like to make a deal he added Putin refused to elaborate on what Russia could accept or reject and none of the other bureaucrats involved offered details of the talks I think it is premature Because it could entirely disrupt the working regime of the peace effort Tass quoted Putin as saying European leaders left on the sidelines by Washington as U S personnel engage directly with Moscow and Kyiv have accused Putin of feigning interest in Trump s peace drive French President Emmanuel Macron met in Beijing with China s leader Xi Jinping seeking to involve him in pressuring Russia toward a ceasefire Xi whose country has provided strong diplomatic advocacy for Putin did not say respond to France s call but revealed that China supports all efforts that work towards peace Russian barrages of civilian areas of Ukraine continued overnight into Thursday A missile struck Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday night wounding six people including a -year-old girl according to city administration head Oleksandr Vilkul The attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s hometown damaged more than residential buildings a school and domestic gas pipes Vilkul disclosed A -year-old girl died in the southern city of Kherson after Russian artillery shelling wounded her the previous day regional military administration chief Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram The Kherson Thermal Power Plant which provides heat for over residents shut down Thursday after Russia pounded it with drones and artillery for several days he mentioned Executives planned urgency meetings to find alternate sources of heating he stated Until then tents were erected across the city where residents could warm up and charge electronic devices Russia also struck Odesa with drones wounding six people while civilian and potency infrastructure was damaged disclosed Oleh Kiper head of the regional military administration Overall Russia fired two ballistic missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight bureaucrats explained Meanwhile in the Russia-occupied part of the Kherson region two men were killed by a Ukrainian drone strike on their truck Thursday Moscow-installed regional leader Vladimir Saldo revealed A -year-old woman was also wounded in the attack he mentioned Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed Follow AP s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https apnews com hub russia-ukraine Source
