After their significant meeting at Alaska to achieve an agreement on the war of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his next meeting with US President Donald Trump could occur in Moscow.
“Next time in Moscow,” Putin said in English, signaling openness to hosting future discussions in Russia. Trump responded to the confident “soon”, which proposed a subsequent meeting in the Russian capital.
“Next time in Moscow,” Putin said in English when Trump said, “I will probably see Putin soon.”
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Trump hopes that the ceasefire in the ongoing 3½ -year war initiated by Vladimir Putin not only prepares a way for peace in the region, but also strengthens his image as a global peacekeeper and potentially builds it as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
For Putin, he represents the summit, his first with the US President from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in itself a significant victory. Regardless of the result, the meeting can introduce as evidence that western efforts to insulate Russia have failed and that Moscow is re -regulating its place at the forefront of global diplomacy, AP said.
Putin is sought by the International Criminal Court, accused of war crime of deportation of hundreds of children from Ukraine. Russia denies the accusation and the Kremlin rejected the order of ICC as invalid. Russia and the United States are not members of the court.
Moscow and Kyiv deny targeting for civilians in war. However, thousands of civilians died in conflict, the vast majority of Ukrainians and the war killed or injured more than a million people from both sides.
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Trump threatened sanctions for Moscow and secondary sanctions on countries buying its oil, especially India and China, unless there are any steps to end the war in Ukraine. So far, however, Trump has not followed, although Putin set a deadline at the beginning of this month to agree to the ceasefire.
The day before the Putin summit, he unloaded the prospect of something Trump wanted to replace the new nuclear weapons agreement to replace the last survival to expire in February.
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Green, which was not invited to Alaska, and his European allies feared that Trump could sell Ukraine by basically freezing the conflict and recognizing – although only informally – Russian control over one fifth of Ukraine.
Trump tried to alleviate these fears on Friday and said that he would let Ukraine decide on any possible territorial concessions.
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“I’m not here to act in Ukraine, I’m here to get them to the table,” he said.
Asked what would happen to the meeting, he told reporters: “I want to see a ceasefire quickly … I won’t be happy if it’s not today … I want killing to stop.”
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