According to Ushakov, Putin flagged \u201cthe destructive actions of the European side\u201d \u2014\u00a0an indication he may try to pin the blame for any failure to reach a peace deal on the EU, which was notably left out of the meeting.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s latest push to inject new momentum into a ceasefire effort \u2014 with a plan that, in its original 28-point leaked version, heavily favored Moscow \u2014has ramped up pressure on Kyiv and alarmed European officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among other things, it asks Ukraine to give up territory in the country\u2019s east not yet occupied by Russian forces and to formalize that it will not seek to join NATO.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the talks as confronting Ukraine with possibly the \u201cmost difficult moment in history,\u201d he has signaled he is open to dialogue.<\/p>\n
Less clear is what Trump is requiring from Russia, or what Moscow is willing to concede.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the days preceding the Moscow talks, Putin showed no signs of straying from his demand of Ukraine\u2019s effective capitulation, denouncing Zelenskyy as an illegitimate leader with whom he could not strike a deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Ushakov, Putin flagged \u201cthe destructive actions of the European side\u201d \u2014\u00a0an indication he may try to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69,3350,51,472,268,17966,269,2852,50,8463,125,257,4995,13226,52,273,67,274,3656,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-421673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-foreign-policy","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-history","12":"tag-investment","13":"tag-jared-kushner","14":"tag-kremlin","15":"tag-negotiations","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-restaurant","18":"tag-rights","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-steve-witkoff","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-vladimir-putin","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","27":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115655376253681592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}