Trumps menn og Putin i fredssamtaler
Vladimir Putin har gitt et løfte stans i angrep mot Kyiv i tre dager.
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday for fresh talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the meeting by calling the situation "not easy" and asked them to send their greetings to President Donald Trump, according to Bloomberg. Ahead of the meeting, Putin reportedly ordered Russian forces to pause airstrikes on Kyiv.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Ukraine would respond in kind for three days starting from Saturday and Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged on X that Ukraine would cease attacks on Moscow and that Russia would stop attacking Kyiv. Despite the ceasefire, Kyiv was hit by air alarms on Saturday afternoon, and there was a reported attack in Khmelnytskyj on the western outskirts of Ukraine, where four people were injured.
Several countries, including India, have recently signaled their willingness to contribute to finding a peaceful solution to the conflict. However, expectations for the meeting are low, and Russia is skeptical of the U.S. peace initiative. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the state news agency Tass earlier that the most important question is to what extent the U.S. administration is prepared to invest in finding a real solution to the current crisis, taking into account the realities on the ground.
President Trump has previously spoken about the meeting but has not shared details about what the U.S. peace plan entails.
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