Russian President's abroad Policy Advisor Yuri Uszakov, who consulted with his American counterpart Mike Waltz after talks between US and Ukrainian delegations in Jeddah, stressed that Russia is not curious in a temporary ceasefire and has presented this position to its American counterpart.
— Our goal is simply a long-term peaceful solution. We want a peaceful solution that takes into account the legitimate interests of our country. Our concerns are known. It seems to me that any steps to imitate peaceful action are not needed in this situation," said Putin’s advisor on Rassija-1.
Yuri Uszakov described a proposal for a temporary ceasefire agreed by American and Ukrainian delegations during talks in Saudi Arabia as temporary remainder for Ukrainian troops. That's what Vladimir Putin said.
Moscow considers Trump to be in a weak negotiating position due to Trump's promises to rapidly end the Russian-Ukrainian war and not be able to bring about specified a result. Meanwhile, the Kremlin sets its own conditions for the cessation of war activities and the future of Ukrainian statehood.
"No viable tools"
Putin may believe that he is able to corrupt Trump and his surroundings, as well as his household members, and that the proposals that Moscow will present to the American president will convince him to quit further support for Ukraine.
The Russian president may effort to get Trump to accept that in the alleged "Russian backyard", that is, in the russian space, the Russian Federation can do what it wants, as, say, Trump can do what it wants in North America.
After all, Russia does not respond to The hard actions of the president of the United States towards Canada, whose accession to the US was repeatedly proposed by Donald Trump. So why can't the American president realize that from the Kremlin's point of view Ukraine's accession to the Russian Federation is no little legitimate nonsubjective of Vladimir Putin than Donald Trump's ambitions towards Canada?
Yuri Uszakov informed the U.S. President's assistant on national safety issues no more than that there would be no temporary ceasefire on the Russian-Ukrainian Front due to the fact that Russia is not curious in him. She wants to destruct Ukrainian statehood. And she'll fight for it. Period.
Was it essential to humiliate the Ukrainian president in the Oval Office, start absolutely ridiculous negotiations in Jeddah to scope the same place as Donald Trump after the first telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin? Even then, the Russian president clearly and clearly rejected the ideas of the American president regarding the temporary truce.
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Finally Trump had already offered this to Putin during his first contact with his Russian counterpart and was practically ignored, as he himself told journalists.
Yes, of course, it was necessary. Finally, an argument with the Ukrainian president in the Oval Office of the White House, a unusual format of Ukrainian-American talks in Saudi Arabia, the resumption of military aid to Ukraine and the exchange of intelligence between the 2 countries are smokescreens to hide the most crucial thing — the deficiency of any real tools to exert force on the president of the Russian Federation or Donald Trump's reluctance to usage these tools.
"Putin does not request a ceasefire"
The sanctions on Russia, as we've seen in the last 3 years, are not as effective as they could be to guarantee the fast collapse of the Russian economy and the Kremlin's readiness to consent to a temporary truce or to cease the war.
Sanctions can work, but they require a longer and more serious commitment. That time Donald Trump is not here due to the fact that he would like to rapidly lead to a ceasefire.
The most interesting thing after the day of talks in the Russian capital will now be whether the Presidents of the United States and Russia will have a telephone conversation on Friday 14 March and whether Trump will recognise the fact that Putin does not request a ceasefire due to the fact that it will not guarantee the accomplishment of its main nonsubjective — the demolition of the Ukrainian state and the business of the territory of Ukraine.
