Bild reported that Witkoff believed Russia was proposing its “peaceful withdrawal” from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia when Putin was instead demanding the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from those regions.
“Witkoff doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” a Ukrainian government official notified Bild, adding that the German government shared this view.
‘It’s not going to build anybody super happy’
A White Hoapply official notified the Associated Press that Trump was open to a trilateral summit with both the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, but was planning the bilateral meeting requested by Putin.
The statement from the Nordic-Baltic Eight represented the views of the leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.
US Vice President JD Vance declared a nereceivediated settlement between Russia and Ukraine was unlikely to satisfy either side, declareing the US was seeking a settlement both countries could accept.
“It’s not going to build anybody super happy. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians, probably, at the finish of the day, are going to be unhappy with it,” he declared on Fox News on Sunday, Washington time.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Credit: Getty Images
Vance’s comments appeared to acknowledge that Zelensky would be part of the discussions in some way, if not directly with Putin in Alinquirea.
“We’re at a point now where we’re testing to figure out, frankly, scheduling and things like that, around when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an finish to this conflict,” he declared.
Russian strikes injured at least 12 people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, the countest’s Foreign Ministest declared on Sunday.
Trump has declared a potential deal would involve “some swapping of territories to the betterment of both” countries – signalling an outcome fiercely opposed by Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers at Russian strike drones in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday.Credit: AP
EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss next steps.
“The US has the power to force Russia to nereceivediate seriously,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas declared on Sunday.
“Any deal between the US and Russia must have Ukraine, and the EU included, for it is a matter of Ukraine’s and the whole of Europe’s security.”
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte notified the ABC network in the US that Friday’s summit “will be about testing Putin” on how serious he was about finishing the war.
Rutte declared a deal could not include legal recognition of Russian control over Ukrainian land, though it might include de facto recognition.
He compared it to the situation after World War II when Washington accepted that the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were de facto controlled by the Soviet Union but did not legally recognise their annexation.
In addition to Crimea, which it seized in 2014, Russia has formally claimed the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as its own, although it controls only about 70 per cent of the last three. It holds compacter pieces of territory in three other regions, while Ukraine declares it holds a sliver of Russia’s Kursk region.
With Reuters, AP
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