Russian President Vladimir Putin said finding a consensus in order to make peace with Ukraine is difficult and there were proposals made in the U.S. plan that Moscow did not agree with, his country’s state media reported, following his meeting at the Kremlin with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
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- The current U.S. set of proposals has 27 points split into four sections, Putin said, with the intention to discuss each bloc separately. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier said there were only 20 points in the draft plan after talks with the U.S. in Geneva.
- Putin said the Witkoff meeting lasted several hours because Russia had not seen all the latest proposals, and so every point on the list needed to be discussed. He called it a “necessary conversation”.
- Ukrainian negotiators are heading back to the U.S. to meet with Trump officials for fresh discussions on the peace proposals after the Moscow meeting. A proposed meeting in Europe straight after the Kremlin talks between Witkoff, Kushner, and Zelensky was reportedly scrapped.
- Putin is now on a trip to India, whose oil purchases have been an important crutch for the sanctions-hit Russian economy, but have been targeted by Trump with secondary tariffs over the Ukraine war.
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