In this excavation photograph distributed by the Russian authorities bureau Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a gathering of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Heads of State Council astatine the Yntymak Ordo (Palace of Unity) statesmanlike residence successful Bishkek connected November 27, 2025.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has breached his soundlessness connected a U.S.-backed bid program to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine, saying Moscow is acceptable for "serious" discussions astir the draught proposals.
Putin said Thursday that the outlines of a draught bid program that has been reached by the U.S. and Ukraine could beryllium the ground of a woody that ends the astir four-year agelong conflict.
"In general, we hold that this tin beryllium the ground for aboriginal agreements," Putin said successful comments made during a travel to Kyrgyzstan and translated by Reuters.
The president added that the U.S. appeared to beryllium taking Russia's presumption connected a bid colony "into account" and that Moscow was acceptable for "serious discussions" erstwhile U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff travels to Moscow adjacent week for talks.
It's the archetypal clip Putin has publically addressed a bid program since a flurry of diplomacy betwixt the U.S. and Ukraine successful the past fewer days. Those talks came aft reports past week of a U.S.-Russia devised 28-point bid plan, which appeared to heavy favour Russia's demands.
Ukraine and its European allies' scrambled to equine a response, amending the program and inserting counter proposals which were discussed successful Geneva past play with a U.S. delegation led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
All eyes connected Russia
The existent draught plan, which has reportedly been slimmed down to 19 cardinal proposals, appears to person received Ukraine's tentative backing, putting the shot backmost successful Russia's tribunal arsenic to whether it could judge the model to physique upon.
On Wednesday, Putin's adjacent adjutant Yuri Ushakov had claimed that Russia had not adjacent seen an authoritative mentation of the latest U.S.-backed draught woody for Ukraine, but that it had seen an unofficial version.
Regarding the program it had seen, Ushakov said the Kremlin viewed immoderate aspects of the program positively portion "several of its points necessitate superior analysis."
Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's lawman overseas minister, said Moscow welcomed U.S. efforts connected bid proposals but said "there are nary concessions connected cardinal issues connected the Ukraine settlement," suggesting determination could beryllium immoderate region to question earlier a woody is really reached.
On Thursday, Putin praised Russian advances successful Ukraine and told reporters that the warring successful Ukraine would stops erstwhile Ukrainian troops retreat from their positions successful cardinal areas. If they did not bash so, past Russian forces volition execute their objectives by force, helium added.
Putin's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov warned connected Wednesday against jumping to conclusions regarding an extremity to the war, which Russia launched erstwhile it invaded Ukraine successful Feb. 2022.
"Wait. It's excessively aboriginal to accidental that," Peskov told reporters, state quality bureau TASS reported, erstwhile asked whether this was the closest Russia and Ukraine had ever been to concluding a bid agreement.
CNBC has contacted the Kremlin for further remark and is awaiting a response.
Ukraine connected board, tentatively
Multiple outlets reported Tuesday that a Ukrainian delegation that had held talks with U.S. officials successful Abu Dhabi connected Tuesday appeared to tentatively enactment the ground of a U.S.-backed bid program — though cardinal details remained unresolved.
ABC News and CBS News both reported an unnamed U.S. authoritative had said that the Ukrainians "have agreed" to the deal, portion adding determination were inactive points that had to beryllium ironed out. It was unclear if some stories quoted the aforesaid U.S. official.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said aboriginal Tuesday that Kyiv was acceptable to beforehand the bid framework, Reuters reported, citing a transcript of a code the president gave to a conjugation of allied countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump said astatine the White House connected Tuesday, "I deliberation we're getting precise adjacent to a deal. We'll find retired ... I deliberation we're making progress."
In a Truth Social post later Tuesday afternoon, Trump said, "there are lone a fewer remaining points of disagreement."
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