{"id":301735,"date":"2025-01-11T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301735"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:57:52","slug":"kremlin-welcomes-the-possibility-of-a-meeting-between-trump-and-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301735","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin welcomes the possibility of a meeting between Trump and Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associated Press \u2013 Jan 10, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Kremlin has welcomed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s readiness to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Moscow official said Friday.<\/p>\n

Russia attaches no conditions to the possibility of face-to-face talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a conference call.<\/p>\n

Trump said Thursday that \u201cPutin wants to meet\u201d and that a meeting is being set up. He indicated that efforts to end the almost three-year war<\/a> between Russia and Ukraine were behind the overtures for talks. \u201cWe have to get that war over with,\u201d Trump said when referring to his possible meeting with Putin.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has criticized U.S. aid<\/a> for Ukraine\u2019s war effort, has called Putin \u201cpretty smart\u201d for invading Ukraine and has praised Russia\u2019s military record in historical conflicts. Putin has been accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials are alarmed at the possibility that the U.S., its single biggest donor, could reduce or stop providing aid. Without Western support, its fight against Russia\u2019s invasion could be doomed.<\/p>\n

The outgoing Biden administration is providing Ukraine with as much military support as it can, including approving a new $500 million package<\/a> of weapons, with the aim of putting Ukraine in the strongest position possible for any future negotiations<\/a> to end the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware that the (Biden) administration will try to leave as difficult legacy in bilateral relations as possible for Trump and his team,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that in any peace negotiation his country would need assurances about its future protection from Russia, its much bigger neighbor, which has invaded Ukraine twice since the turn of the century. Europe alone cannot provide that guarantee, he said late Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEuropean security guarantees are not sufficient for Ukraine that fights such an enemy as Russia. We need joint security guarantees from the U.S. and Europe,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is to receive $2 billion in military aid packages after Thursday\u2019s meeting in Germany<\/a> of senior officials from more than 50 countries which have been supporting Kyiv\u2019s war effort, according to Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has so far signed partnerships with 34 countries in the fields of air and missile defense, digital security, demining, and naval cooperation, Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukraine has for the first time received funds from the European Union from frozen Russian assets, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loans for Ukraine is an initiative by G7 countries<\/a> to collectively provide nearly $50 billion in non-repayable financial aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

As a part of ERA initiative, Ukraine received three billion Euro and intends to spend it on \u201cpriority budget expenditures,\u201d Shmyhal said.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian officials are reportedly alarmed at the prospect of a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Putin, which could lead to a lowering of tensions and a reduction in arms supplies to Ukraine from its single biggest donor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301736,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301735\/revisions\/301736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}