Russia criticises European moves to amend US plan to end Ukraine war

Yury Ushakov’s remarks travel a time aft US and Russian officials held talks connected the US connection successful Florida.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apical overseas argumentation adjutant says that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to the United States’ proposals for an extremity to Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine did not amended prospects for peace.

“I americium definite that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians person made oregon are trying to marque decidedly bash not amended the papers and bash not amended the anticipation of achieving semipermanent peace,” Yury Ushakov was quoted arsenic saying by Russian quality agencies connected Sunday.

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The US-drafted proposals for an extremity to the astir four-year ⁠war, leaked to the media past month, raised European and Ukrainian concerns that they favour much of Russia’s wartime demands ​and that US President Donald Trump’s medication could propulsion Kyiv into conceding excessively much.

Since then, European and ‍Ukrainian negotiators person met with Trump envoys successful an effort to adhd their ain proposals to the US drafts, though the nonstop contents of the existent connection person not been disclosed.

The remarks from Ushakov came aft Putin’s peculiar envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, met successful Florida connected Saturday with US peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Dmitriev said the talks would proceed ​on Sunday.

The Miami gathering followed US talks connected Friday with European and Ukrainian officials.

In the aftermath of those talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his squad should clasp much talks with European allies.

“There is simply a shared consciousness that aft the enactment by our diplomatic squad successful the United States, we should present clasp consultations with European partners successful a broader circle,” Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X connected Sunday.

Three-way talks?

Zelenskyy had said connected Saturday that Ukraine ‌would backmost a US connection for three-way talks with the US and Russia if it facilitated much exchanges of prisoners and paved the mode for meetings of nationalist leaders.

Ushakov ‌said that a connection for three-way talks had not been earnestly discussed by ⁠anyone and that it was not being worked on.

Russia says that European leaders are intent connected scuttling the talks by introducing conditions that they cognize volition beryllium unacceptable to Russia, which took 12-17 quadrate kilometres (4.6 to 6.6 quadrate miles) of Ukrainian territory per time successful 2025.

Ukraine and European leaders accidental that Russia cannot ‌be allowed to execute its aims successful what they telephone its imperial-style onshore grab.

Ukraine battles attempted Russian breakthrough

In Ukraine, fighting continues with the Ukrainian service battling an attempted Russian breakthrough successful the Sumy region, it said connected Sunday, pursuing reports that Moscow forcibly moved 50 radical from a borderline colony there.

This marks a renewed Russian beforehand successful the portion of the portion antecedently mostly spared from aggravated crushed warring since Ukraine regained onshore determination successful a swift 2022 counter-offensive.

“Fighting is presently ongoing successful the colony of Grabovske,” Ukraine’s associated task unit said, adding the troops were “making efforts to thrust the occupiers backmost into Russian territory”.

Zelenskyy said that implicit the week, “Russia has launched astir 1,300 onslaught drones, astir 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 9 missiles of assorted types” against Ukraine.

Russia launched its full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022 aft 8 years of warring successful the country’s east.