{"id":527106,"date":"2025-10-25T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527106\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:00:14","slug":"diplomatic-solution-to-end-ukraine-war-in-sight-russian-envoy-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527106\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Diplomatic solution\u2019 to end Ukraine war in sight, Russian envoy says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou know, his previous position was that Russia should leave completely. So actually, I think we are reasonably close to a diplomatic solution that can be worked out,\u201d Dmitriev said.<\/p>\n<p>But Ukraine, together with its European allies, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2025\/10\/24\/chairs-statement-following-24-october-coalition-of-the-willing-leaders-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> on Friday that \u201cborders must not be changed by force.\u201d Russia has asked for Ukraine to concede more territory before it can agree to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitriev is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/russian-envoy-to-meet-with-steve-witkoff-in-miami-after-trump-sanctioned-moscow-00622319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set to meet<\/a> with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s envoy Steve Witkoff on Saturday in Florida to discuss a solution to the war in Ukraine. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/trump-putin-meeting-budapest-00611493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are also expected to meet<\/a> for a second time to discuss the issue, potentially at a summit in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian leader Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who would host the Budapest talks, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PM_ViktorOrban\/status\/1981967304314499163\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on Saturday that the meeting \u201chas not been removed from the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timing is uncertain, but it will happen,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russian attacks on Ukraine continue. Two people were killed and 13 injured in strikes on Kyiv Friday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-aerial-attack-kyiv-kills-one-injures-10-officials-say-2025-10-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou know, his previous position was that Russia should leave completely. So actually, I think we are reasonably&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[768,6215,473,32,2190,1197,332,7070,657,49,1781,333,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-527106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-cooperation","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-hungary","13":"tag-investment","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-steve-witkoff","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-viktor-orban","19":"tag-vladimir-putin","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115435171077731128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}