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EPAPresident Vladimir Putin said Russia would achieve all its goals with force if Ukraine disagreed with a deal.
“It seems to me that if a common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable decision to end this conflict,” Putin said. “If not, then we will have to solve all our military tasks.”
He praised Donald Trump’s “sincere desire” to find a solution – a day after the US president said he was “disappointed” in Putin after Russia’s attacks in Ukraine after Alaska’s summit.
Trump tried to persuade Putin to meet with Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenski, but the Russian leader did not agree to do so.
“I have never ruled out the possibility of such a meeting. But is there any sense? Let’s see,” he said.
He added that every such meeting requires preparation in advance to give results and that Zelenski can always go to Moscow to see it – a “deliberately unacceptable” idea, as the foreign minister of Ukraine stood out quickly.
The President of Ukraine stresses Putin’s refusal to meet as a way of calling Trump to impose sanctions on Russia and to strengthen Ukraine’s defense.
Russia began a full -scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.
Putin spoke in Beijing after attending a massive military parade hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The event – also present to the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the leaders of about 20 other countries – are seen as a challenge for the world -dominated world world order.
This did not go unnoticed by Trump, who wrote on his social media platform: “Please give my most warming wishes to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un as you think against the United States of America.”
Asked by Russian state television journalists as to whether the war in Ukraine could be completed soon, the Russian leader said that “there is some light at the end of the tunnel.”
But he stressed that Russia would not abandon the Donbass area in Eastern Ukraine, that its troops had seized.
The Russian leader repeated his demands not to seek to become a NATO member and to stop what he called discrimination against ethnic Russians – one of the allegations mentioned as the pretext of the invasion.
Putin has hinted that security guarantees that the Western allies of Ukraine have promised to provide Kiev after a future peace deal will not contact the Donbass regions, whose inhabitants have chosen to join Russia-alert to widely criticized voices conducted after an anexation.
On Thursday, the French president will host a meeting of the so-called coalition of desire-Grouping of allies of Ukraine.
A source in Elise, Macron’s office, said the group wanted to provide US support for a Russian pressing plan to agree to the cessation of fire, with the allies expanding the security guarantees immediately to Ukraine instead of waiting for a peace deal.
President Trump pressed Putin to end the fire during their Alaska meeting last month, but then came out of negotiations, saying that the search for a peaceful deal would be a better way to end the conflict.
Putin rejected the calls for a truce and his troops have strengthened attacks on Ukrainian cities. More than Russian 500 drones and 24 cruise missiles were fired only on Wednesday night.
