- Putin says he speaks on the right path.
- Ready to work with Ukraine in peace: Russian president.
- Russia says that the idea of high fire must work.
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a call with US President Donald Trump on Monday, said the efforts to end the war in Ukraine were on the right path and that Moscow was ready to work with Ukraine in a memorandum on the future peace agreement.
Putin thanked Trump for supporting the resumption of direct conversations between Moscow and kyiv, and said Trump pointed out Russia’s support for peace, although the key question was how to move towards peace.
“We have agreed with the president of the United States that Russia will propose and is ready to work with the Ukrainian side in a memorandum on a possible future peace agreement, defining a series of positions, such as, for example, the principles of liquidation, the moment of a possible peace agreement,” Putin told journalists near the Styl Negro Sea Complex.
If the appropriate agreements are reached, then there could be a stop, Putin said, he added that the direct conversations between Russia and Ukraine “give reasons to believe that we are generally on the right path.”
“I would like to keep in mind that, in general, Russia’s position is clear. The main thing for us is to eliminate the root causes of this crisis,” Putin said. “We just need to determine the most effective ways to move towards peace.”
After the telephone call of European leaders with Trump on Sunday, French president Emmanuel Macron said in X: “Tomorrow, President Putin must show that he wants peace by accepting the high the unconditional fire of 30 days proposed by President Trump and backed by Ukraine and Europe.”
Putin distrusts a high fire and says that the fights cannot stop until the conditions are met, including a stand to the western arms for kyiv.
European leaders say that Putin is not serious about peace. They are worried that Trump can abandon support for kyiv, forcing him to accept a punitive peace agreement that would leave Ukraine stripped of a fifth of his territory and without a strong guarantee of security against the possible future attack.
Before Trump returned to office this year, Washington joined the leaders of Western Europe and Ukraine to describe the invasion of Russia as a monopo of land in the imperial style.
The Trump administration has changed the United States politics towards the acceptance of some of Russia’s stories about the conflict, which Moscow says that he launched due to a threat of security of the drift of Ukraine towards the West.
