European and Ukrainian revisions to US proposals hindering peace efforts: Russia
A top foreign policy aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin says that changes to the US proposals by Europeans and Ukraine do not improve the prospects for long-term peace in Ukraine.
Yuri Ushakov said that he was sure the chances of peace in Ukraine were hampered by any changes made to US proposals, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
"This is not a forecast," he told reporters. "I am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or are trying to make definitely do not improve the document and do not improve the possibility of achieving long-term peace."
Negotiations initiated by US President Donald Trump in the framework of a 28-point plan to end the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. It later boiled down to a 20-point plan.
The framework of the Trump administration's plan rests on the premise that the Russian-speaking Donbas territory in eastern Ukraine will join Russia.
Russia has already liberated most of Donbas despite huge military aid given to Kiev by the US-led Western forces to fight against Russian troops.
European and Ukrainian negotiators have been discussing changes to the US plan. However, it is unclear exactly what changes they want to make to the original US proposals.
Meanwhile, Trump’s envoys have been negotiating the 20-point peace plan with Ukrainian, Russian, and European officials.
Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, and Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are presently negotiating in the US city of Miami.
Dmitriev told reporters after meeting Witkoff and Kushner on Saturday that the negotiations had been positive.
“The discussions are proceeding constructively,” said Dmitriev. “They began earlier and will continue today, and will also continue tomorrow.”
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