{"id":1800,"date":"2025-02-03T08:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:59:31","slug":"talks-with-russia-and-ukraine-going-pretty-well-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/talks-with-russia-and-ukraine-going-pretty-well-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks with Russia and Ukraine \u2018going pretty well\u2019 \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington has meetings scheduled with representatives from Moscow and Kiev, the US president has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US is set to hold talks with both Russia and Ukraine over the settlement of the conflict, President Donald Trump has announced, adding that discussions on the issue are \u201cgoing pretty well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump said the US is attempting to resolve several crises. \u201cAs far as other things are concerned, as you know, we had a very busy weekend. We\u2019re dealing with Israel, we\u2019re dealing with Ukraine and Russia,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have meetings and talks scheduled with various parties, including Ukraine and Russia, and I think those discussions are actually going pretty well,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

The comments come after Keith Kellogg, Trump\u2019s special envoy for Ukraine, suggested that both Kiev and Moscow would have to make concessions for a peace deal to be reached. \u201cI think both sides will give a little bit,\u201d<\/em> he told Fox News.<\/p>\n

Kellogg added that Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky was already considering changes to his stance on ruling out any formal territorial concessions. \u201cZelensky has already indicated he will soften his position on land,\u201d<\/em> he stated. At the same time, the envoy claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cis going to have to soften his positions as well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking about the timeline for a possible resolution, Kellogg estimated that an agreement could be reached within months. \u201cIt\u2019s not years we are talking about. We have a solid action plan,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

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Zelensky has no idea where most of \u2018$200 billion\u2019 in US aid went<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On Saturday, Kellogg also told Reuters that the US wants Ukraine to hold elections, potentially by the end of the year. Kiev has suspended presidential and parliamentary elections citing martial law, with Zelensky\u2019s term having expired last May. In light of this, Moscow deems him \u201cillegitimate,\u201d<\/em> stressing that the only legal authority now rests with the Ukrainian parliament and its speaker.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have stated that they are open to talks with the US on the Ukraine conflict but emphasized that no substantial agreements on discussions have been reached.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier media reports have suggested that Trump\u2019s potential peace plan for Ukraine could involve a ceasefire along the current front lines and the creation of an 800-mile demilitarized zone patrolled by European troops. Additionally, the plan could reportedly require Ukraine to delay its aspirations for NATO membership for at least 20 years.<\/p>\n

However, Russia has ruled out the freezing of the conflict, stating that hostilities will only end when Ukraine agrees to permanent neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification while recognizing \u201cterritorial realities on the ground.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington has meetings scheduled with representatives from Moscow and Kiev, the US president has said The US is set to hold talks with both Russia and Ukraine over the settlement of the conflict, President Donald Trump has announced, adding that discussions on the issue are \u201cgoing pretty well.\u201d Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}