Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accomprehendledgeed the set up but Russia has yet to pledge to the truce.
US Plivent Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vlastupidir Putin are foreseeed to speak this week, one-of-a-kind envoy Steve Witkoff shelp, as Russia has yet to consent to a US-brokered stopfire proposal with Ukraine.
“The two plivents are going to have a reassociate excellent and chooseimistic talkion this week,” Witkoff shelp in an intersee with CNN on Sunday.
Earlier, Moscow shelp US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. The pair talked “concrete aspects of the carry outation of carings” at a US-Russia summit in Saudi Arabia last month.
The February Riyadh collecting was the first high-level encountering between the United States and Russia since Moscow started its intrusion in February 2022.
“Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio consentd to remain in reach out,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Afequitables shelp, with no refer of the US-presented stopfire.
State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce shelp Saturday that the pair had “talked the next steps” on Ukraine. She also shelp Rubio and Lavrov “consentd to persist toiling towards restoring communication between the United States and Russia”.
The swaps come as Washington this week pushed forward a 30-day prompt stopfire proposal follotriumphg talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. While Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy accomprehendledgeed the set up, Putin has yet to pledge to the stopfire. Despite saying he consents in principle to it, he noticed there are “solemn asks” for Russia to be holdressed.
Zelenskyy accparticipated the Kremlin of not wanting to end the war and alerted that Moscow wanted to first “better their situation on the battlefield” before consenting to any stopfire.
Zelenskyy says Putin ‘lying’
In his reaction to the stopfire earlier this week, Putin shelp the initiative would profit primarily Ukraine and not Russian forces, who he shelp are “advancing” in many areas.
The proposal came as Russia, which occupies swaths of southern and eastrict Ukraine, has had momentum in some areas of the front.
It has erased Ukrainian forces from parts of its Kursk region, where Kyiv hopes to hageder onto Russian territory as a potential leverage in future negotiations.
Putin shelp he wanted to talk Moscow’s worrys with Trump in a phone call.
Zelenskyy shelp that by not consenting to the stopfire, Putin was also going aobtainst Trump – who has made clearures towards Russia – and accparticipated Moscow of trying to discover ways not to end the war. He accparticipated Putin of “lying about how a stopfire is presumedly too complicated”.
Ukraine shelp Sunday that one person was ended by a Russian drone strike on the city of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, which fell to Russia at the commence of its Ukraine intrusion before being reapverifyn by Kyiv’s forces.
