From Rome, where he has returned to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, the US president, Donald Trump, said April 25 that Russia and Ukraine are “very close to an agreement.” “The two parties should now meet at a very high level to end the process,” he wrote on his social social network network.
The American leader awaits “a beautiful day of negotiations and meetings with Russia and Ukraine.” He told reporters “that he will meet some people” during his stay in Rome, without bringing more details.
“Most of the important points have agreed.
Early in the day, in an interview with the time, Donald Trump said that “Crimea will remain under Russian control.” “And (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky understands that,” said the White House tenant on this illegally attached peninsula in 2014.
Crimea, a point of discord between Kyiv and Washington
A point where Volodymyr Zelensky shared his opposition. “Our position remains unchanged (…) All occupied territories temporarily belong to Ukraine,” the Ukrainian President told journalists, while Crimea’s recognition is Russian is, according to the media, in the US plan for a cessation of hostilities.
The 47th President of the United States already said on Wednesday that Crimea, attached by Russia in 2014, is A territory “lost” by “for years.”
In the columns of the time, the US president also accused Kyiv again of having activated the war. “I think the outbreak of the war took place when they began to talk about NATO membership,” said the US president.
In recent days, they have still marked by an intensification of discussions between Moscow and Washington. Vladimir Putin spoke on Friday the “possibility” of “direct negotiations” between Moscow and kyiv, as part of a meeting with the American emissary Steve Witkoff.
The latter, the privileged interlocutor within the US administration of the Russian head of state, fulfilled the latter for the fourth time since the unexpected relaunching of relations between its two countries in mid -February at the initiative of Donald Trump, which promotes a peace plan in Ukraine.
There have been no direct negotiations over view of a cessation of conflict between Russians and Ukrainians from which they took place during the first months of the Russian offensive, in 2022, and that had not been successful.
Source: BFM TV
