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WikipediaUnited States would propose to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to hold personal negotiations with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the president of the United States Donald Trump. The goal of the meeting is to achieve a ceasefire, Politico reports.
This idea became known after Zelensky’s talks with the U.S. special envoy Steve Vittkoff in Oslo. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who organized the talks, said that Vittkoff would travel to Russia on Wednesday. There he would meet with the Russian leadership and convey peace proposal terms, including the idea of a trilateral summit.
“Today we had, I would say, good and constructive talks – necessary after last week’s events,” Støre noted.
According to him, Vittkoff will discuss with the Russian side ideas developed during the meeting in Norway, as well as proposals European and American partners have worked on. This, the Norwegian prime minister hopes, could pave the way for leaders’ level negotiations.
What Zelensky said about a peace agreement
As UNIAN reported, Zelensky called the talks positive. At the same time, he emphasized that decisions regarding the future of Ukrainian territories could be discussed only at the heads-of-state level.
The president also stressed that any peace settlement must include real security guarantees for Ukraine. According to him, the agreement will be acceptable only if Ukraine participates in its development.
Previous attempts to arrange a personal meeting between Putin and Zelensky did not yield results. Recently, the Kremlin insisted that such talks could only take place in Moscow. The proposed trilateral meeting would be the first summit involving the leaders of Ukraine, the United States, and Russia since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 year.
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