Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe.
In remarks to Russian media, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that after a five-hour meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the two sides were “neither further nor closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There is a lot of work to be done.”
The downbeat assessment of Tuesday night’s diplomacy follows combative opening statements from Putin as Witkoff and Kushnerarrived for talks at the Kremlin, in which he accused European powers of sabotaging peace in Ukraine and that “European demands” on ending the war were “not acceptable to Russia”.
Are they now…? Then it seems rather odd - in light of their usual behavior - that they’re just talking instead of acting upon it.
Why, it’s almost like Putin is so completely full of shit that the pressure is forcing it out his mouth.
The original headline (current post title) was doctored by The Guardian in a blatant attempt of warmongering, and has been edited since. Putin’s actual words can be found some paragraphs into the article: “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”