Trump is willing to meet “immediately” with Putin, who answered the American

Russian President, Vladimir Putinyou are “ready” to talk to Donald Trumpsaid the Kremlin on Friday, January 24, after the US president declared that he is willing to an encounter, stating the expectations that a meeting will be made.

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The conflict in Ukraine He struck the relationships between these two nuclear powers at their lowest level since the Cold War. During the electoral campaign, the Republican promised to quickly end the fighting, but without giving details.

“Putin is prepared. We are waiting for signs. All are prepared“Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters.

Putin and Trump argue that they are willing to meet to negotiate on Ukraine, but the US president threatened Russia with hardening the sanctions if Moscow does not accept to finish the conflict.

Peskov said that he cannot rule on details about a possible meeting, stating that “it is difficult to read the coffee wells” to predict the future.

The spokesman of the Russian presidency did not outline any calendar or specified what Marco a meeting between the two leaders can have, after Trump affirmed on Thursday that he is willing to meet “immediately” With Putin.

“From what I listen, I think Putin wants to see me. I will meet as soon as I can. I mean, immediately,” Trump told the press in the oval office. He pointed out that the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski“He is ready to negotiate an agreement. He would like to stop. He is someone who has lost many soldiers, just like Russia.”

As for that, in the Kremlin they questioned the disposition of the Ukrainian to negotiate peace. “Zelenski cannot be prepared for a pact (…) because to achieve an arrangement, you have to negotiate and Zelenski has prohibited himself (with Russia) through a decree, “Peskov said.

The magnate’s statements are difficult to interpret. On the one hand, USA It is the main military support of Ukraine and the Republican is critical of these help packages. But Trump also threatened Russia with hardening sanctions against his economy, if he does not accept to finish the offensive, which began almost three years ago.

“If they do not put an end to this war soon, almost immediately, I will impose huge tariffs against Russia, huge rates and hard sanctions,” warned the Republican president in an interview with Fox News broadcast on Thursday.

In the press conference, Peskov dismissed Trump’s claims that the conflict in Ukraine could end “immediately”, if oil prices lower. “This conflict does not depend on oil prices,” he said.

Trump defended in a distance intervention in the Davos forum that he will ask “Saudi Arabia and the OPEC that lower the cost of oil”, referring to the organization of oil exporting countries.

Peskov explained that the conflict is based on “threats to the national security of Russia” and “threats to the Russians” who live in Ukraine, and “the lack of will and the total rejection of American and Europeans to listen to what the concerns are of Russia “.

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From Trump’s investiture, no signs shows signs of a decapted hostilities. A Russian bombing near kyiv left three dead and several injured, the Ukrainian authorities said Friday. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that it felt 120 Ukrainian drones in 12 regions, including Moscow.

The Ukrainian state agency, who is responsible for prisoners of war, informed that Russia gave the authorities the bodies of 757 soldiers, one of the greatest repatriation operations in the almost three years of conflict.

Trump’s promises to end the conflict generated fears that Ukraine is forced to make important territorial concessions to Russia.

The Russian troops have been progressing slowly on the eastern front and are close to the city of Pokrovsk, a key position for military logistics and the coal industry.

Zelenski was hostile for a long time to any negotiation with Russia, but has opened to a dialogue, under the condition of receiving solid security guarantees of the Western powers.

Russia demands that Ukraine renounce his aspirations to belong to NATO and seek to conserve the Ukrainian territories whose annexation claimed.