{"id":202417,"date":"2025-11-27T05:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202417\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:04:15","slug":"russia-rules-out-compromise-on-key-war-aims-while-eu-warns-against-carving-up-ukraine-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202417\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia rules out compromise on key war aims while EU warns against \u2018carving up\u2019 Ukraine \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia <\/a>has said it will not budge on key demands in any talks to end its war with Ukraine<\/a>, as the European Union<\/a> warned that the renewed US<\/a> push for peace must not lead to the \u201ccarving up\u201d of the embattled country.<\/p>\n

White House envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to travel to Moscow for talks on US-backed peace proposals next week, despite revelations that he advised senior Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov<\/a> last month on how best to pitch ideas for Ukraine to US president Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has claimed that a peace deal is now \u201cvery close\u201d and Ukrainian and European officials welcomed changes that they say were made to the initial 28-point US peace plan at talks in Geneva last Sunday \u2013 even as Russian officials backed the original document and warned that they would not accept revisions to important points.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can be no talk of any concessions or of abandoning our approaches to the key aspects of resolving the challenges that face us, including in the context of the SVO,\u201d Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday, referring to the \u201cspecial military operation\u201d \u2013 Moscow\u2019s term for its nearly four-year war with Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russia was determined \u201cto achieve our stated goals, preferably through diplomatic means. If there are any setbacks, then we will continue to act within the framework of the SVO,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Ushakov said Russia had received US peace proposals \u201cunofficially\u201d and would review them with Mr Witkoff and other US officials in Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not discussed it with anyone yet, because the document truly requires serious analysis and discussion. While certain aspects can be viewed positively, much requires special discussion between experts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Ushakov, a low-key but influential and highly experienced diplomat who advises Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> on foreign policy, found himself in the spotlight on Wednesday after Bloomberg published transcripts of two of his phone conversations with Mr Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev, a leading figure in Russia\u2019s talks with Washington.<\/p>\n

In the calls, Mr Witkoff advises Mr Ushakov on how best to present proposals on Ukraine to Mr Trump, and Mr Dmitriev suggests \u201cinformally\u201d giving a paper stating Russia\u2019s position on Ukraine to Washington, in the hope that the US will use it \u201clike their own\u201d.<\/p>\n

Critics of the original 28-point peace plan unveiled by the US last week said it did in fact resemble a Russian wish list on Ukraine, but Mr Dmitriev dismissed the report as \u201cfake\u201d and an attempt to derail peace efforts.<\/p>\n

Mr Ushakov appeared to confirm that the conversations took place, however, saying that \u201csomeone is leaking, someone is eavesdropping, but not us … There are certain conversations on WhatsApp that, generally speaking, someone might somehow be able to listen to.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"\"‘The world looks very different from here’ – Denis Staunton’s global briefing<\/p>\n

European leaders are demanding a role in discussions on Ukraine\u2019s future, while the Kremlin accuses them of trying to sabotage what it claims are the good-faith efforts of Mr Putin and Mr Trump to end the war and rebuild Russia-US relations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first priority is that any agreement should deliver a just and lasting peace. And it should ensure real security for Ukraine and Europe … So Ukraine needs robust, long-term and credible security guarantees,\u201d EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond priority \u2013 upholding Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty … So we need to be clear that there cannot be unilateral carving up of a sovereign European nation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSovereignty also means being able to choose your own future. Ukraine has chosen a European destiny … Europe\u2019s future is bound to Ukraine\u2019s future. And therefore, Ukraine\u2019s future lies in the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia has said it will not budge on key demands in any talks to end its war with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,2264,2263,2267,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-202417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-ukraine-crisis","22":"tag-vladimir-putin","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115619919754289071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}