MOSCOW: The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin was unfastened to talks with Donald Trump, aft the incoming US president said a gathering betwixt the brace was being acceptable up.
“The president has repeatedly stated his openness to interaction with planetary leaders, including the US president, including Donald Trump,“ Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Trump, who volition beryllium inaugurated connected January 20, has repeatedly said helium tin bring a swift extremity to the astir three-year struggle betwixt Russia and Ukraine, without presenting a factual plan.
On Thursday helium said a gathering with Putin was being arranged.
“He wants to meet, and we’re mounting it up,“ Trump said astatine a gathering with Republican governors astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Palm Beach, Florida.
“President Putin wants to meet, he’s said that adjacent publicly, and we person to get that warfare implicit with, that’s a bloody mess,“ helium said.
The Kremlin welcomed Trump’s “readiness to lick problems done dialogue,“ Peskov said Friday, adding Moscow had nary prerequisites for staging the meeting.
“No conditions are required. What is required is communal tendency and governmental volition to lick problems done dialogue,“ helium told reporters successful a regular briefing.
Trump’s hopes for a swift extremity to the struggle person stoked interest successful Kyiv that Ukraine could beryllium forced to judge a bid woody connected presumption favourable to Moscow.
Washington has delivered tens of billions of dollars successful assistance to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale subject violative successful February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that without specified enactment his state would person mislaid the conflict.
He is pushing Trump to backmost his “peace-through-strength” proposal, seeking NATO protections and factual Western information guarantees arsenic portion of immoderate colony to extremity the fighting.