10.01.2025, 14h31
Vladimir Putin is “open to contact” with Donald Trump without preconditions, the Kremlin announced on Friday, welcoming the American president-elect’s desire to “resolve problems through dialogue”.
The Russian president “has repeatedly stated that he is open to contact with international leaders, including with the President of the United States, including with Donald Trump,” Dmitry Peskov, his spokesperson, told the press. .
“No conditions are required, what is necessary is a mutual desire and political will to resolve problems through dialogue,” continued Mr. Peskov, ascribing precisely this quality to the American president-elect.
“Donald Trump demonstrates his desire to resolve problems through dialogue. We welcome this (…). We start from a mutual desire to meet,” he continued, while specifying that there was currently no concrete plan for a meeting between the two men.
Trump wants to end the conflict in Ukraine
Mr. Trump, who is due to take office on January 20, said Thursday that he was preparing a meeting with Vladimir Putin to “finish” the conflict in Ukraine.
The Republican billionaire promised during his electoral campaign to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine “in twenty-four hours” and has already called for an “immediate ceasefire” and talks.
Mr. Putin, for his part, is still calling for Ukraine to surrender, for it to renounce joining NATO and for Russia to keep the Ukrainian territories for which it has claimed annexation.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, for its part, said on Friday that it “sees nothing new” in Mr. Trump’s comments on a possible meeting with Mr. Putin.
“All of us in Ukraine want to end the war fairly for Ukraine and we see that President Trump is also determined to end the war,” commented the spokesperson for this ministry, Georgiy Tykhy, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
According to him, kyiv is preparing for discussions with American officials “immediately” after Donald Trump takes office in ten days, including with Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelensky.
