US and Ukrainian officials were meeting for further talks on Sunday, aimed at hampering the ceasefire in the Russian war in Ukraine, Washington indicated the hope of “real progress”, even Moscow warned that “difficult negotiations” were ahead.
The Gulf expectations marked the latest period of talks in Saudi Arabia, which was about to follow it after a meeting between US officials and Russia on Monday. According to the United States, the United States is pushing for a widespread ceasefire in the Russian war in Ukraine until April 20. To Bloomberg, However, sources said that the timeline could slip into view of the vast gap that exists between the positions of Kiev and Moscow.
On Sunday, the US Special Envoy, Steve Watkov, has been encouraging to work with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to end Europe’s deadly conflict since World War II. “I think he wants peace,” Vietvov told Fox News.
This week’s talks are expected to see details of the implementation of a 30 -day ceasefire on the energy infrastructure, and the shipping in the Black Sea will likely expand.
“I think you are going to see some real progress in Saudi Arabia on Monday, especially when it affects the war on the ships between the two countries.” “And this will naturally draw you to a complete shooting ceasefire.”
The White House National Security Advisor, Mike Walts, said Sunday that the United States was also talking through numerous steps to build confidence, including the future of Ukrainian children coming to Russia.
However, the Kremlin rapidly poured water on the hopes of a sharp solution, and said “difficult negotiations” are ahead. “We are only at the beginning of this route,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian State TV on Sunday. “
Peskov said that the “important” focus in his dialogue with the United States would be a possible rehabilitation of the 2022 -grain grain agreement, which was broken by Turkey and the United Nations, which ensured safe navigation for the Ukrainian farm exports through the Black Sea.
Moscow withdrew from the deal in 2023, among the allegations that the West had failed to maintain its commitments to reduce Russia’s fields of fields and reduce sanctions on fertilizer exports.
Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, a property unmanned developer, Vitchenov, who had no diplomatic experience before being assigned to Donald Trump’s special envoy, eliminated concerns to launch Vladimir Putin’s extensive aggression.
“I just don’t see that he wants to take all Europe,” he said. “I take it to his word in this sense, so, and I think the European people are starting to come to this belief too. But it doesn’t matter. It is an educational issue… is the agenda, stop killing, stop the massacre. Let’s end it.”
Last week, Putin agreed to a 30 -day prevention proposal to attack Trump’s energy infrastructure. However, the ceasefire was soon put in doubt, both sides reported constantly strikes.
Ukrainian officials said on Sunday that at least seven people were killed overnight after Russia’s 147 drone launched. Ukrainian air defense shot 97 drones, and 25 others hindered the Ukrainian counter -atrocities.
Three people, including a five -year -old boy, were killed in Kiev, while four people were killed in a Russian attack on the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Russian troops allegedly occupied a small village in Serbin in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, while a Ukrainian army said its army had recovered a small village in Nadia in the eastern Lohansk region.
Russian officials said on Sunday that their air defense had destroyed 59 Ukrainian drones targeting the country’s southwestern areas, and noted that the strikes had killed one person in Rostov.
This week’s talks came in connection with a widespread interview with former Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, in which Vietvov described his praise for Putin, which launched a complete attack on Ukraine three years ago, and slammed the British Prime Minister.
Vietvov said he “liked” the Russian president-“I do not consider Putin a bad man … he is very smart”, he said-when he called the car star to put British troops to the ground in a post-Ukrainian fire.
Watkov, who is leading the US ceasefire talks with both Russia and Ukraine, described the star’s idea as “simple”: “I think it is, you know, we are not making such an idea like Winston Churchill, the Russians have something to march in Europe.”
Vaticov also emphasized that Kiev had “agreed” to hold the elections, though he did not offer further details or support of the claim. The Ukrainian constitution prevents national elections from being held during the martial law period, while speaking logically, any results face obstacles from air raids, potential attacks on crowded polling stations and Russian occupation of some areas.
When asked about the conversation with them, however, Vitticov said the “central issue” was the Ukrainian regions that were occupied by Russian forces or partially occupied. However, he stumbled in an attempt to name them.
“The biggest problem with this dispute is the so -called four regions, Donbas, Crimea, you know the names and there are two more,” said Vetticov, “in these remarks, which shows the names of Lohnsk, Donetsk, Zaporzia and Kheerson, and it was in the east of four areas.
Earlier this month Depression That Ukraine will not be able to recognize any occupied territories – where Russia was held in 2022 in 2022 so that it could cover his illegal affiliation as Russian.
Vaticov appeared with the Kremlin when he presented a massive notorious election as a proof of local sentiment on the ground and confronted the locally -spoken language with Russia’s support.
“They are speaking Russian,” Vaticov said of four eastern areas. ” “There are referendums where the overwhelming majority of people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule.”
In 2022, the Security and Cooperation Organization in Europe, which monitors the elections, said the referendums did not meet international standards and they were held in areas where most of the population escaped and who are not safe, while no evidence has been found that Russian -speaking areas are more favorable for Russian -speaking areas.
Vaticov added: “Russians are in fact controlling these areas. The question is, will the world recognize that they are Russian areas? Can Zilnsky survive politically if he recognizes it?”
Watkov, who met Putin in Moscow earlier this month, told Carlson that the meeting “got personal status”, as Putin had commissioned Trump’s “a beautiful photo” to take Vaticov to the US president.
Putin also told Vaticaf about his reaction to a failed attempt to assassinate Trump. “He went to his local church and met his priest and prayed for the president – not because he was the president of the United States or could become the president of the United States – but because he had a friendship and he was praying for his friend.”
He added, “And I came home and handed this message to our president and provided painting, and it was clearly affected by it.”
Journalist and historian N. Epalbam rapidly criticized his comments. He wrote on social media, “If you ever wondered how the KGB had manipulated foreigners and prepared them to repeat the Soviet propaganda, spent some time to hear Steve Vittaf’s words about their amazing conversation with Vladimir Putin.”
Vetkov claimed that the Russians had now achieved that when they started attacking Ukraine on a complete scale. He said, “Why would they want to absorb Ukraine? For what purpose, of course? They do not need to absorb Ukraine.” “They have achieved – they have claimed again on these five regions. They have Crimea, and they have acquired their will. So why do they need more?”
Instead, he imagined a global stage where the United States and Russia can develop a ceasefire to normalize relations and to join forces such as Arctic, Maritime, Europe, LNG supply and artificial intelligence. “Who doesn’t want Russia and the United States with mutual cooperation, doing good things together?” He asked.
