Moscow (TDI): The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin was open to talks with Donald Trump, after the US president-elect said a meeting between the pair was being set up.
Trump, who will be inaugurated on January 20, has stated that he can bring a swift end to the nearly 3-year Russia-Ukraine war, without presenting a concrete plan.
“Putin has repeatedly stated his readiness to contact with global leaders, including the US president and Donald Trump,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
Trump on Thursday said a meeting with Russian President was being arranged.
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“He wants to meet, and we’re setting it up,” the incoming president stated at a gathering with Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
“Putin has expressed his desire to meet, even publicly. We need to end that war—–It’s a bloody mess,” he said.
The Kremlin appreciated Trump’s “openness to solve problems through negotiations,” Peskov said Friday, adding Russia had no conditions for arranging the meeting.
“No conditions are required. What is needed is mutual desire and political will to resolve issues through dialogue,” he told reporters in a routine briefing.
Trump’s hopes for a swift end to the war have stoked concern in Kyiv that Ukraine could be forced to accept a peace agreement on terms favourable to Moscow.
Washington has delivered tens of billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale military attack in February 2022.
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Volodymyr Zelensky has said that without such backing Ukraine would have lost the war.
He is pushing Donald Trump to support his “peace-through-strength” proposal, seeking NATO protections and solid Western security guarantees as part of any settlement to end the conflict.
