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Kremlin says Moscow open to negotiations on certain terms after Trump's call for Ukraine peace talks

Sunday, 08 December 2024 3:42 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 08 December 2024 3:42 PM ]

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov

The Kremlin has declared Moscow's readiness to start peace talks on certain terms after US President-elect Donald Trump's call for negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that Russia was open to talks on Ukraine after Trump called for “an immediate ceasefire and negotiations.”

Peskov said the peace negotiations had to be based on agreements reached during the Istanbul talks in 2022 and on the current battlefield realities.

He noted that Kiev had banned its officials from having contact with the Russian leadership through a special decree which Peskov emphasized would have to be lifted if talks were to resume.

Peskov stressed that it is important to recall that it was Kiev that refused and continues to refuse to hold peace talks.

“Our position on Ukraine is well known; the conditions for an immediate stop of hostilities were set out by President [Vladimir] Putin in his speech to the Russian Foreign Ministry in June of this year," Peskov said.

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Trump and Zelensky met briefly in Paris on Saturday as world leaders, invited by France's President Emmanuel Macron, gathered in the French capital for the reopening ceremony of the historical Notre Dame Cathedral.

During his re-election campaign before winning the 2024 US presidential election, Trump had vowed to “settle the war in Ukraine and end the chaos in the Middle East.”

Trump will take office on January 20 and it is still unclear whether he will choose to continue the Biden administration’s foreign policy, i.e., to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of US taxpayers' money on funding the wars in Ukraine and West Asia, as well as arming Chinese Taipei.

Trump and most Republican lawmakers have repeatedly announced that they are opposed to the huge budget allocated to Kiev and other foreign militaristic projects, including the US-funded expansion of NATO, in both the West and the East.

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