{"id":611240,"date":"2025-12-04T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611240\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:17:13","slug":"russia-admits-real-reason-putin-wont-accept-trumps-call-for-peace-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611240\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia admits real reason Putin won’t accept Trump’s call for peace | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin<\/a> has bluntly rejected a key element of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s proposed peace plan for Ukraine for one specific reason, it has been claimed. Kremlin insiders have revealed the Russian leader\u2019s “shocking” rationale: he believes Moscow is winning on the battlefield and sees no need to make concessions. After five hours of talks in the Kremlin on Tuesday between Putin and US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner<\/a>, presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov admitted that \u201cso far, no compromise version of a peace settlement has been found\u201d on Russia\u2019s demand to keep the four partially occupied Ukrainian regions\u2014Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson\u2014which Moscow illegally annexed in 2022.<\/p>\n

Without territorial concessions from Kyiv, Ushakov said, the Kremlin sees \u201cno resolution to the crisis.\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted on Wednesday it was \u201cnot correct\u201d to claim Putin<\/a> had outright rejected the American plan. However, he refused to elaborate, stressing that \u201cthe quieter these negotiations are conducted, the more productive they will be.\u201d He added that the talks were a normal process of finding compromise, noting: \u201cSome things were accepted, some things were marked as unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deadlock triggered immediate fury from Ukraine<\/a> and its European allies. UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper accused Putin of \u201cbluster and bloodshed\u201d and demanded he \u201ccome to the table and support a just and lasting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urged the Russian leader to \u201cstop wasting the world\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just a day earlier, Putin had accused European nations of sabotaging US-led peace efforts, warning that Moscow would be ready for war with Europe if provoked.<\/p>\n

European ministers meeting in Brussels showed little patience. Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said it was \u201cpretty obvious that Putin doesn\u2019t want any kind of peace,\u201d while Finland\u2019s Elina Valtonen noted Russia<\/a> had made \u201cno concessions\u201d and called for a full ceasefire as the first confidence-building step.<\/p>\n

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte confirmed allies would continue heavy military support to Kyiv, announcing that Canada, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands were jointly committing hundreds of millions of pounds to buy more US weapons for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump insisted the Kremlin talks had been positive, telling reporters that Witkoff and Kushner left Moscow \u201cvery strongly\u201d convinced Putin wants a deal.<\/p>\n

The US envoys are due to meet Ukraine\u2019s lead negotiator, Rustem Umerov, in Miami on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> struck a cautiously optimistic tone, saying \u201cthe world clearly feels that the possibility of ending the war exists\u201d but stressing that peace required \u201cconstructive diplomacy plus pressure on the aggressor.\u201d<\/p>\n

A leaked US peace proposal last month\u2014widely criticised in Europe for tilting heavily towards Moscow\u2014had reportedly offered Ukraine NATO membership in exchange for ceding the occupied territories and accepting permanent military restrictions. Kyiv immediately dismissed it as a non-starter.<\/p>\n

Analysts warn that Russia\u2019s battlefield momentum, combined with Mr Trump\u2019s reluctance to donate (rather than sell) weapons to Ukraine, is strengthening Putin\u2019s conviction that time is on his side.<\/p>\n

Speaking earlier this week, Yuriy Boyechko, CEO of the Hope For Ukraine think tank, warned: “The peace talks are less about finding middle ground and more about a strategic play to weaken Western support and pressure Kyiv into accepting unfavourable terms.<\/p>\n

“Putin’s ambition extends beyond the current frontlines; he views an independent, sovereign Ukraine \u2014 especially one aligned with the West\u2014as an existential threat that must be neutralised. While he may engage with the US framework as a “basis for future agreements,” this mainly serves to keep Washington occupied while Russian forces continue their advance.”<\/p>\n

The human cost continued overnight. Russian drones killed two civilians and critically wounded two more in Ukraine\u2019s Dnipropetrovsk region, while falling debris from intercepted Ukrainian drones sparked a fire at a Russian oil depot in Tambov region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin has bluntly rejected a key element of Donald Trump\u2019s proposed peace plan for Ukraine for one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,2046,332,7661,190899,190898,657,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-611240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-putin","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-territorial-concessions","13":"tag-trump-peace-plan","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115660315034136050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611240","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=611240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}