Putin and Trump’s Messenger Viton have made constructive conversations in Moscow, says the Russian assistant

US envoy Steve Vikoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a “constructive” conversations in Moscow on Friday with a duration of three hours, according to Putin’s assistant.

Yuri Ushakov said that the opportunity for Russia and Ukraine to resume direct negotiations is a special point of discussion.

The United States did not release details of what was discussed during the meeting, but as it was held US President Donald Trump hinted that the two sides were close to a deal.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski has called on the Allies to exert more pressure on Russia, accusing Moscow of not agreeing with a previous temporary termination of the fire presented by the United States.

The traffic was stopped as a convoy of cars carrying Vitcof arrived in Central Moscow as he made his fourth visit to Russia since the beginning of the year.

The three -hour conversations were described as “constructive and very useful” by Putin Ushakov’s assistant.

It brought together “Russian and American positions closer not only in Ukraine, but also on a number of other international issues,” he said.

“Considerable to the Ukrainian crisis, the possibility of resuming direct conversations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives was more specially discussed,” he added.

Earlier this week, Putin signaled for the first time from the early stages of war that he is open to conversations with Zelenski.

It is believed that his remarks are in response to a proposal by the Ukrainian president for the 30-hour Easter truce, which will be extended for 30 days. A truce has not yet been agreed.

Kiev was at the end of the increasing pressure from Trump to accept territorial discounts as part of an agreement with Moscow to end the war.

The issue of the occupied Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally applied by Russia in 2014, has become a special point of lightning.

Zelenski repeatedly rejects the idea of ​​recognizing Crimea as part of Russia by telling reporters in Kiev on Friday: “Our position is unchanged – only the Ukrainian people have the right to decide which territories are Ukrainian.”

However, in the short remarks, he suggested that “territorial issues” be discussed if “complete and unconditional termination of the fire” was agreed.

“A complete and unconditional cessation of the fire opens the opportunity to discuss everything,” he said.

He also refers to comments made by Trump in Interview with Time Magazinein which the US president said “Crimea will remain with Russia.”

“What President Trump says is true and I agree with him that we do not have enough weapons today to return control of the Crimean Peninsula,” Zelenski said.

The US peace plan has not been publicly published, but reports suggest that Russia preserves the land it has won, in the amount of about 20% of the territory of Ukraine – a condition that is in favor of Moscow.

According to the Reuters Agency, which last week has seen US proposals handed over to European employees, as well as subsequent counter -proposals from Europe and Ukraine, there are significant differences between them.

The US deal offers US legal adoption of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and factual recognition of Russian control over other occupied areas, including the entire Luhansk region.

In contrast, Europeans and Ukrainians will discuss what happens to the occupied Ukrainian territory only after the ceasefire has come into force.

As the meeting between Vitcof and Putin was taking place, Trump claims that the conversations are going in the right direction.

“They meet Putin at the moment while we talk, and we have many things, and I think we will end up with very good deals, including tariff deals and commercial deals,” he told reporters in the United States.

He said his goal is to end the battles in Ukraine, which claims the life of 5,000 Ukrainian and Russians a week, adding that he believes that “we are quite close” to a peaceful deal.

But the positions of Russia and Ukraine still seem to be miles away, without a representative of Ukraine, invited to participate in the conversations in Moscow.

Writing on social media on Friday, Zelenski criticizes Russia for If we do not agree with a 30-day termination of fire proposed by the United States on March 11 And he called on the Allies to exert more pressure on him.

“It has been 45 days since Ukraine agreed with President Trump’s proposal for silence in the sky, the sea and the front line,” he said. “Russia rejects all this. Without pressure, this cannot be resolved. The pressure on Russia is necessary.”

He said, Deadly Missile strike on Kyiv On Thursday, which killed 12 people.

“Insufficient pressure on North Korea and its allies allows them to make such ballistic missiles. The rocket that kills the residents of Kiev contains at least 116 parts imported from other countries, and most of them, unfortunately, are made by US companies,” Deglisky.

Following the attack on Kiev, Trump said he “put a lot of pressure” on both sides to end the war and turned directly to Putin in a social media publication, Saying, “Vladimir Magazine!”

Since then, Trump has accused Kiev of starting the war, telling Time magazine: “I think what caused the war to start is when they (Ukraine) began to talk about joining NATO.”

Before the conversations between Vitcof and Putin on Friday, a Senior Russian General was killed in an attack on a car bomb in the Russian capital. The Kremlin accused Ukraine of being responsible. Kyiv has not commented.

Two people were also killed in a Ukrainian blow to the Russian region Belgorod, the local governor said. Again, Ukraine did not comment on the request.