MOSCOW, Russia — Russia is ready to hold peace talks with Ukraine “without preconditions,” President Vladimir Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff at a meeting on Friday, the Kremlin says.
“During yesterday’s talks with Trump’s envoy Witkoff, Vladimir Putin reiterated that Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine without any preconditions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says, adding that Putin has repeated that several times in the past.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump criticizes Putin for attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine in recent days, and says, “Maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war.”
In a post on Truth Social after his talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome, Trump also says maybe Putin “has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?'”
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