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(NewsNation) — There has inactive not been a bid woody reached betwixt Ukraine and Russia arsenic the warfare betwixt the 2 nations continues.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a Monday deadline, acceptable by U.S. President Donald Trump, to perpetrate to bid talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Putin has alternatively been successful attendance astatine a summit successful Beijing, China, hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, wherever helium is strengthening his ties with China, India and North Korea. Meanwhile, the U.S. and European Union person been moving towards postwar plans for Ukraine.
The Trump medication has said that successful caller days, Putin has not been making strides towards bid with Ukraine pursuing the Alaska summit helium and Trump attended. So far, determination has been nary connection connected whether Russia volition beryllium deed with the economical sanctions Trump threatened if nary statement has been reached.
While the gathering was astir the countries successful attendance countering Western power connected the planetary stage, the taxable of Ukraine did travel up, with Putin saying determination are communal understandings betwixt the Kremlin and the White House that the warfare indispensable travel to an end. Putin added that helium is unfastened to the thought of EU rank for Ukraine.
"As for the Ukrainian EU membership, we person ne'er objected to this," Putin said during the 2nd time of the Beijing gathering Tuesday. "As for NATO, this is different issue. The constituent is the information of the Russian Federation, not lone contiguous oregon successful the midterm clip span, it is astir the semipermanent outlook. Our presumption present is well-known: We see it unacceptable for us."
A face-to-face gathering betwixt Zelenskyy and Putin besides appears to beryllium up successful the air, with Yuri Ushakov, the erstwhile Russian ambassador to the U.S., saying that arsenic acold arsenic helium knows, determination was "no statement betwixt Putin and Trump connected it."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that each options stay connected the array erstwhile it comes to economical unit enactment connected Russia to thrust it to the negotiating position.
