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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump’s deadline for Russia to determination toward peace with Ukraine oregon look steep sanctions from the United States has arrived.
The White House said economical consequences for Russia and its commercialized partners are inactive expected, and that Trump won’t backmost down connected the ceasefire clip bounds helium acceptable for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Consequences person already been felt by 1 of Russia’s apical commercialized partners. Trump deed India with an additional 25% tariff earlier this week, punishing the state for its relation arsenic the second-largest importer of Russian oil, down China — which is facing a Tuesday deadline to hold to a tariff woody with the U.S.
Trump-Putin meeting: Ukrainians uncertain, Zelenskyy wants in
Leadership successful Ukraine is watching the back-and-forth betwixt Moscow and Washington, D.C., closely.
Trump and Putin’s teams person said they want to conscionable face-to-face arsenic soon arsenic adjacent week, though small has been confirmed.
“As President Trump said earlier contiguous connected TRUTH Social, large advancement was made during Special Envoy Witkoff’s gathering with President Putin,” White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a statement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made it wide helium wants a seat astatine the table for these negotiations.
A White House authoritative antecedently suggested the gathering was contingent connected Putin besides sitting down with Zelenskyy, but precocious Thursday, Trump walked that back.
Russia’s presumption for ending the warfare see large-scale demilitarization, guarantees of giving up the pursuit of NATO rank and territorial concessions successful places that Russia has ne'er occupied.
Getting immoderate woody crossed the decorativeness enactment volition instrumentality superior negotiations — a information leaving immoderate radical successful Ukraine less-than-hopeful for Friday’s developments.
"I bash not expect immoderate affirmative outcomes from this Trump-Putin meeting. Why should Putin extremity this war?" Mykhailo Kryshtal, a nonmigratory of Kyiv, told NewsNation. "He has astatine his fingertips a batch of radical consenting to dice for him, oregon for immoderate ephemeral ideas produced successful Russia."
To Putin, negotiations are "all immoderate benignant of games," Kryshtal said.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz contributed to this report.
