According to an AP report, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow and Washington were “exchanging signals” on Ukraine via “closed channels.” He did not specify whether the communication was with the current administration, or Trump, and members of his incoming administration. Russia is ready to listen to Trump’s proposals on Ukraine, provided these were “ideas on how to move forward in the area of settlement, and not in the area of further pumping the Kyiv regime with all kinds of aid,” Ryabkov said Nov. 9, in an interview with the Russian state news agency Interfax.
In Kyiv, the AP report continues, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told reporters that Ukraine is ready to work with the Trump administration. “Remember that President (Volodymyr) Zelenskyy was one of the first world leaders ... to greet President Trump,” he said. “It was a sincere conversation (and) an exchange of thoughts regarding further cooperation.”
“Also during the telephone conversation, further steps to establish communication between teams were discussed and this work has also begun. Therefore, we are open for further cooperation and I’m sure that a unified goal of reaching just peace unites all of us,” Sybiha said.
