Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded his American counterpart, Donald Trump, for “doing everything” to improve relations between Moscow and Washington. The remarks from Putin came during his meeting with security officials and came just days after Trump said the US has had “very good and productive discussions” with Putin in recent days.
According to Russian news outlet Tass, Putin laid out his vision at the meeting and insisted that improving ties with the United States would now be one of the main agendas. “We know that the new administration headed by President Trump is doing everything to restore at least something of what was destroyed by the previous US administration,” he said.
As per the report, Putin also responded to an appeal by Trump to save the lives of “thousands” of surrounding Ukrainian soldiers and insisted that he would respect the request as long as the soldiers of the eastern European nation surrendered in Kursk. However, Kyiv has extensively denied claims that its troops have been encircled by Russian forces in Kursk.
The remarks from Putin came after Steve Witkoff, Trump’s close ally and special envoy to the Middle East, held late-night talks with the Russian leader on Thursday. The American diplomat put forward the US proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire in the war on Ukraine. While Kyiv has already accepted the proposal, Putin listed out a series of sweeping conditions that he wants to be fulfilled before Russia agrees to the truce.
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