Putin has at all times claimed to be open to talks on ending the battle (File)
Moscow:
Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Thursday that he took severely US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s feedback that he might deliver a couple of fast finish to the preventing in Ukraine.
Trump had mentioned throughout a debate with President Joe Biden final week that if elected, he would have the battle “settled” earlier than he took workplace in January 2025.
“The truth that Mr. Trump as a presidential candidate is saying that he’s prepared and needs to cease the conflict in Ukraine, we take that fairly severely,” Putin mentioned at a press convention in Astana.
Russia normally refers to its navy offensive on Ukraine as a “particular navy operation.”
Putin added that he was “not acquainted” with Trump’s particular proposals to finish the preventing, now in its third 12 months.
“That, after all, is the important thing query,” Putin mentioned.
“However I’ve little doubt that he says it sincerely, and we assist it,” he added.
Putin has at all times claimed to be open to talks on ending the battle, although final month demanded Ukraine successfully capitulate as a precondition of a ceasefire.
The Kremlin chief had known as for Ukraine to drag its troops out of the south and east of the nation, vacating territory at the moment held by its forces, if it wished Russia’s offensive to finish.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly rejected the thought of a brief ceasefire, which he says Russia would use to regroup and rearm.
Kyiv needs Russian forces overseas solely, together with the Crimea peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014, as a part of any settlement, and for Russia to pay compensation for injury and destruction attributable to the battle.Â
Russian troops have made modest advances on the battlefield this 12 months after a Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023 was largely unsuccessful.
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