Moscow and Washington continue to look for a compromise, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said<\/p>\n
Russia has not rejected the US peace plan on the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, adding that Moscow and Washington are continuing to work toward finding a compromise.
\nSpeaking to reporters on Wednesday, Peskov stressed that \u201cit would be wrong\u201d to say President Vladimir Putin had turned down the American proposals after the talks in Moscow with US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
\nHe said the Kremlin meeting was the first direct exchange on the plan and that \u201csome things were accepted, some were marked as unacceptable,\u201d describing it as a \u201cnormal negotiation process\u201d and \u201ca search for compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He declined to spell out details of the four documents related to the Ukraine peace plan handed over to Moscow. \u201cWe proceed from the fact that in this case it is better for these negotiations to be conducted in silence,\u201d he said, adding that Russia is \u201cnot a supporter of megaphone diplomacy\u201d and that Moscow sees the Americans as following the same principle.
\nHis comments came after a roughly five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between Putin and Witkoff, which was joined by Kushner, focused on possible ways to end the fighting. Presidential aide Yury Ushakov called the discussion \u201cvery useful, constructive [and] very substantive,\u201d adding that the sides \u201cdiscussed the substance, not specific wording and solutions.\u201d\u00a0
\nThe talks were built around a US-drafted framework that first surfaced publicly in November when a 28-point proposal was leaked to the media. The plan would reportedly require Kiev to give up parts of Russia\u2019s Donbass still under its control, renounce NATO membership ambitions and accept limits on the size of its armed forces. Since then, however, Ukraine and its EU backers attempted to impose their own conditions during several rounds of talks with the US.
\nWhile Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky has publicly rejected any territorial concessions to Russia, he acknowledged that there were \u201cno simple solutions\u201d for ending the conflict, and that he expected \u201csignals\u201d from the US negotiators \u2013 who reportedly cancelled an expected meeting with him after the Kremlin talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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