{"id":6564,"date":"2026-07-07T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/6564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:42:34","slug":"natos-rutte-nobody-knows-what-it-would-take-to-get-putin-to-negotiate-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/6564\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO\u2019s Rutte: \u2018Nobody\u2019 knows what it would take to get Putin to negotiate \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Kyiv has been notching military victories on the battlefield and increasingly striking targets deep in Russian territory, Moscow continues to attack Ukraine with dozens of ballistic missiles as the latter scrambles to shore up its dwindling air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russian-attack-kyiv-kills-11-injures-46\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest attack on Monday<\/a>, just before the summit, killed at least 22 people and wounded over 90 in Kyiv alone, with Zelenskyy admitting a lack of PAC-3 interceptors meant Ukraine did not shoot down even one of 20 ballistic missiles launched at it. He urged partner nations to deplete their stocks for Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte condemned the attack and urged allies to provide everything Ukraine needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin is willing to sacrifice up to 35,000 of his own men, which is crazy on the battlefield. Can you imagine what an impact that has on all those families?\u201d he added, urging Russians to think twice before joining the army.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/news_kremlin\/7722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> in a video statement posted to the Kremlin&#8217;s Telegram channel Monday that Russia would prefer to solve \u201cthe Ukraine conflict\u201d in a diplomatic manner, and hoped Donald Trump\u2019s team of negotiators would soon renew its efforts at peace talks, praising the U.S. president&#8217;s consistent position on the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy is planning to meet Trump on the sidelines of the NATO Summit to discuss air defense supplies and next steps to force Putin to the negotiating table, a top official familiar with the talks told POLITICO. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I think he[Putin] does feel pressure. He wants to end it, and Ukraine wants to end it. And we\u2019re in talks, and we will see if we can get it ended,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=712x1rjpIdY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re getting much closer to end than most realize. President Putin wants it to end, and President Zelenskyy actually wants it to end now. And we\u2019re going to NATO, and we\u2019re going to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Kyiv has been notching military victories on the battlefield and increasingly striking targets deep in Russian territory,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[460,961,60,238,299,66,462,4119,210,1716,3121,20,71,437,130],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-defense","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-kremlin","tag-mark-rutte","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-mykhailo-fedorov","tag-nato-summit","tag-negotiations","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}