Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at an international leaders summit in Moscow, Russia on October 8, 2024.
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After the initial enthusiasm for thawing the frozen relationshipthe current Kremlin appears to be calming between reconciliation with the resurrection of the United States, saying that there is still a long way to go to restore the “severe” damaged ties.
Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told CNBC on Monday: “The process of lifting our bilateral relations out of a serious crisis is positive and we support it. But we are still at the beginning of the journey .”
“The former Washington government messed up. There’s a lot of work to do,” he added in an email comment from Google Translate.
It is not surprising that the Kremlin may be cautious in restoring relations with Washington after the past few years Use anti-US rhetoric to flood the information space at home and abroad.
Tensions between Russia and Washington during Joe Biden’s four-year term in office at the White House, with Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in 2022 prompting U.S.-led international sanctions on Moscow’s elite and economic sanctions, and Make Russia and its allies counter to Russia and its allies. The west.
However, President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has changed relations as we saw last week the first high-level sit-in talks between U.S. and Russian officials in years, Hope to lay the foundation for peace talks in Ukraine. Ukraine and its European allies were swallowed up by the United States and Russia and negotiated without input.
However, the discussion seemed to be for Moscow and quickly changed the emotional music, with Russian President Vladimir Putin commending the U.S. delegation and rated the speech as “high”.
Putin told Russian state media correspondent Pavel Zarubin late Monday that White House leaders hope to reach a deal in Ukraine that would not necessarily be beneficial to Russia.
“What does (Trump) want to do? In my opinion, he wants to improve the situation, the political situation in Ukraine, consolidate society, and create conditions for the survival of the Ukrainian country. Overall, this is not the case for the interests of Russia, We are still in conflict with the current regime.
At the time, Putin praised Trump for his “reasonable attitude to the coronavirus”, but said he did not essentially discuss a potential Ukrainian peace deal with the president.
Russian Foreign Ministry officials announced on Monday that the second round of Russia-US talks will likely remain in Saudi Arabia before this weekend. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded to these feelings, but again pointed out that the war will end only in a deal that is acceptable to Moscow.
“We are ready to negotiate with Ukraine, Europe and any representative who wishes to achieve a sincere peace, but we will stop fighting only if these negotiations produce a firm and sustainable outcome suitable for the Russian Federation,” he said.
Align in the background
Russia and the United States seemed more clearly consistent on Monday, when the UN Security Council adopted a U.S.-written resolution on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which was in a more neutral position in the war.
The U.S. resolution calls for a “quick end to the conflict and further urges lasting peace between Ukraine and the Russian Federation” and adopts the Council with the support of Russia and China.
The five permanent and non-permanent European members of the Commission failed to support their proposed amendments to the wording of the U.S. resolution, including condemning the Russian invasion, support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity within internationally recognized borders, and “just, lasting, lasting, lasting, lasting, lasting, lasting, lasting) comprehensive peace.”
After the amendment was rejected, Denmark, France, Greece, Slovenia and the United Kingdom abstained from the U.S. resolution. Earlier, the United States had stood with Russia against the European-backed Ukrainian resolution at the European United Nations General Assembly.
The United States expressed appreciation to the United Nations’ acting envoy Dorothy Shea, who praised the adoption of the U.S. resolution, saying it was “the first in Ukraine to adopt the resolution in three years to a firm call for an end to the conflict.”
Dorothy Shea, Deputy U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, at a meeting of the UN Security Council, on February 24, 2025, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. . The U.S. resolution on Ukraine has been supported by Russia and has not criticized Moscow’s aggression on the third anniversary of the invasion. There were 10 votes in favor but no objection, but five votes, including France and the United Kingdom, which may have rejected only the resolution of “pleading for a quick end of the conflict” without blaming Russia.
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After the vote, the Russian ambassador to UN UN Vasily Nebenzya praised what he called “a constructive shift in Ukraine’s conflict” which also saw the Russian amendment to the resolution Failed to obtain support.
“The texts adopted now are not ideal, but in essence, this is the first attempt to adopt a constructive and future-oriented product of the Council that tells the way to peace and does not like the flames of conflict,” he said. He commented on Mondaysaid the text adopted “is just the starting point for further efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis peacefully.”
