Russia says it has no intention of abandoning its objectives in its war against Ukraine and calls President Donald Trump’s talk of a swift deal “premature.”
Moscow says it will not make concessions during its invasion of Ukraine and will not give up the goals it set when it launched the offensive. The Kremlin considers Trump’s suggestion that a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow could come soon to be premature.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state media that hopes for a quick peace in Ukraine are unfounded.
“Wait, it’s too early to say that,” he said when asked to comment on the U.S. president’s remarks about the possibility of a deal in the near future.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow welcomed efforts by the U.S. administration to seek solutions within a peace plan, but it will not make concessions and will not abandon its initial objectives in Ukraine.
Ryabkov complained about “a series of anti-Russian attacks” that he said have been observed since Trump and Putin met in Alaska in August of this year.
Russia welcomes the efforts of US President Donald Trump’s administration on a peace plan, but says it will not make any concessions in the war against Ukraine, Ryabkov said.
According to him, the Kremlin is not ready to publicly discuss various versions of the plan.
Ryabkov said Moscow is ostensibly open to dialogue, but pointed to what he called a lack of political will from the White House “to strictly carry out” the understandings reached during the summit in Alaska.
“There can be no talk of any concessions or of abandoning our approaches to the key issues before us during the special military operation,” Ryabkov said.
He added that various elements of the Anchorage understandings “are compromise solutions in themselves.”
“That is the basis we will use as a reference when we study and continue discussing the version [of the peace plan] that is now on the table or will be on the table,” Ryabkov said.
The U.S.-proposed plan initially contained 28 points, but it underwent significant changes after talks between Ukrainian and American delegations in Geneva, according to media reports. Journalists learned that Kyiv refused to hand over the non-occupied part of Donbas to Russia and also rejected a proposal to reduce Ukraine’s armed forces to 600,000 personnel.
Media sources say it’s too early to discuss a final version, and work on the proposal is ongoing. A day earlier, Ukraine’s Presidential Office said President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to meet Trump to discuss key elements of the plan. The White House, for its part, said a meeting between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents is not currently planned, but that could change quickly.
Trump said he intends to meet with Zelensky and Putin only once the plan is ready or in its final stage.
