The US president will try to bring both sides together to negotiate a settlement to the conflict, US ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has said<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump will not force any conditions on either Moscow or Kiev to resume peace negotiations, Washington\u2019s ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has stated.
\nAppearing on Fox Business on Friday, the envoy said that the US president will, nevertheless, continue to push for a settlement in the Ukraine conflict.
\n\u201dPresident Trump is going to continue to find the leverage and to find the conditions where he can bring both sides and mediate a resolution\u2026 [but] he\u2019s not going to set the conditions,\u201d\u00a0Whitaker said.
\n\u201cBoth sides are going to have to agree to a peace deal,\u201d\u00a0he added.
\nSpeaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump stated that, while possible, a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky would be hard to arrange because \u201cthey hate each other\u201d intensely.
\nThe US president also predicted that if the two met, he would \u201chave to do all the talking.\u201d
\nIn an interview to TASS on Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov described the US\u2019 position on the Ukraine conflict under the Trump administration as one coming \u201cfrom common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He also accused European NATO nations of attempting to obstruct Washington\u2019s peace efforts.
\nIn stark contrast to his predecessor, Joe Biden, Trump has actively engaged in dialogue with Russia ever since he assumed office in January. Last month, he held a summit with Putin in Alaska. The US president subsequently pledged to arrange negotiations between Putin and Zelensky.
\nEarlier this month, the Russian president said he was willing to sit down with Zelensky, suggesting Moscow as a potential venue.
\nZelensky stated that he was also ready for such a meeting \u201cwithout any kind of conditions,\u201d however, he rejected the idea of holding talks in the Russian capital.
\nLast week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, of which there have been three rounds to date, had been \u201cpaused\u201d for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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