Putin urged European countries to engage in talks with the United States to reach a peace deal with Ukraine, rather than hinder them.
MADRID Dec. 4 (EUROPA PRESS).- The President of Russia, Vladimir Putinpointed out this Thursday that the meeting held in Moscow with the special envoy of USASteve Witkoff, have page “very useful” y “necessary“but has reaffirmed that, likewise, the Ukrainian region of the Donbás “will be released“.
Thus, he justified its long duration – about five hours of meeting – and explained that the conversations were developed on the proposals made by the American President, Donald Trumpduring the summit of Alaska last August.
Putin has urged European countries to “get involved” in the talks to reach an agreement instead of “obstructing” them. “Russia will liberate Donbas and Novorossiya, either militarily or by other means,” he clarified during an interview with the newspaper ‘India Today’.
The president, who is actually in India, has thus referred to territories that include the provinces of Kharkiv, Kherson, Mikolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk. “We have given Ukrainian troops the opportunity to withdraw from Donbas, but kyiv prefers to continue fighting.”
“We have told them that people do not want to live under their leadership; they went out to vote in the referendum and voted in favor of independence. If they withdraw their troops there will be no military actions, but they prefer to fight,” he stated.
In this sense, he recalled that Russia did not recognize the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk for eight years. “They declared independence but we have tried to improve relations with the rest of Ukraine and its republics,” he noted, while clarifying that, subsequently, he saw that these areas “were being destroyed.”
For him, Trump is “sincerely trying to achieve a consensual solution.” “This is not an easy role,” he said, not without highlighting that it is a “difficult task.”
However, he has said he disagrees with some points of the US proposal. “Some issues are very difficult. In some we have said yes, it can be discussed, but in others we cannot,” he added.