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Russia ‘does not want to make any concessions,’ says EU foreign policy leader
European Union’s foreign policy leader Kaja Kallas It is said that Moscow was unreliable, after a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin resulted in an agreement with Russia to stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities.
“If you read two readings from the call, it’s clear … Russia doesn’t want to make any kind of concessions,” Kallas told journalists in Brussels, Reuters reported.
Further talks expected on Sunday in Saudi Arabia with sides in ‘relatively short distances to full stopping’, says US Witkoff
US envoy Steve Witkoff In a television interview overnight US-Russia talks are expected to continue on Sunday, along with both sides reunited in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Talking to Fox, he suggested that the Russians also signed up in a form of agreement on the “aspect of the Black Sea Maritime of a ceasefire,” and added that he was “certainly hoping that the Ukrainians would go through it.”
It is not immediately clear if Ukraine will be invited to take part in Jeddah’s conversation.
Russia’s reading after the call is said that Putin “responded in full” to Trump’s proposals, consistent with negotiations to “more specific details.”
Witkoff was also asked if there would be a “reward” in the arrangements, after Russia demanded that Ukraine should not be remedied at the time.
“I think the devil is in details. We have a team going to Saudi Arabia, led by our national security counselor and our Secretary of State, and I think, you know, we need to know those details,” he said.
He continued, with many compliments for both Trump and Putin:
“The point is that, until recently, we really have no agreement around these two aspects, the energy and infrastructure stop and the Black Sea moratorium on firing.
And now we get to that place, and I think it’s a bit short distance to a full stop from there.
And again, I emphasize that this is the president’s former relationship with President Putin, the President emphasizes that they need to engage in confidence to end this war.
President Putin, and I praised him for it, saying that he was in agreement with the President’s posture at all, he was in strategy, he did not want to see many people dying in the field.
So these two great leaders gather for the good of mankind, and honestly a privilege and an honor for me to set to sit there and listen to that conversation. “
Putin ‘playing a game’ in Ukraine with ‘unacceptable -receiving’ pushing for western military cessation, intelligence support, says German Definition Minister
Minister of the German defense Boris Pistorius accused Vladimir Putin of “playing a game” to UkraineCalling Russia’s Attack in Ukraine overnight.
“We have seen that attackers in civilian infrastructure have not been lighted Donald TrumpPistorius said in a TV interview, quoted by the AFP.
The Minister also described the “unacceptable -accept” the Kremlin’s forcing that a “basic condition” for peace would be a total cessation of western military support and intelligence in the Ukraine military.
“This is very transparent,” Pistorius said, adding that Putin aims to prevent Kyiv’s supporters from “further supporting Ukraine and enabling it to really defend himself if there is another attack, during or after a ceasefire”, the AFP reported.
Morning Opening: The (Russian) Art of Deal
President of the United States Donald Trump Experienced a difference of regional region in his manu -manong Art of the Deal on Tuesday, after the President of Russia Vladimir Putin It seems to refuse to subscribe to his comprehensive ceasefire initiative and instead re -advance a set of maximalists in Ukraine and the wider security infrastructure in Europe.
Or as Daniel SzeligowskiLeader of the Eastern Europe Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, put it:
Trump wants to stop fighting. Putin wants Ukraine to stop fighting. That can be a subtle, but basic difference.
Just hours after Trump-Putin’s phone call, President of Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy Reported around 40 “shahed” drones attacking targets in Ukraine, including civilian infrastructure. Kyiv said this morning Russia fired six missiles and 145 drones overnight.
Zelenskyy called Putin said he “effectively rejected the proposal for a full stop of the stop,” and encouraged the “world to respond by refusing any attempts at Putin’s attempt to extend the war.”
Penalties against Russia. Help in Ukraine. Strengthening allies in the free world and working towards security guarantees. And a true stopping strikes in Russia’s civilian infrastructure, as proof of willingness to end this war, can approach peace.
European leaders will undoubtedly give their initial judgments today, leading what has been promised another Pivotal EU summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. And the EU will offer more details on its plan to re -imagine Europe, as part of the initiative worth up to € 800bn.
Zelenskyy is in Finland, where he will meet with President Finnish Alex Stubb and talk next to him at a joint meeting.
