In his Dec. 3 interview with India Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Dec. 2 meeting with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow, and the proposal they brought regarding ending the conflict in Ukraine. “What our American colleagues presented was, in one way or another, based on our prior agreements made before my meeting with President Trump in Alaska. We had discussed these very issues, to some extent, at the meeting in Anchorage,” Putin said. “However, what the Americans brought us this time was truly new; we hadn’t seen it before. Therefore, we had to go through practically every point, which is why it took so much time. So it was a meaningful, highly specific, and substantive conversation.”
He noted that there were issues on which no consensus was reached, saying: “Yes, such issues were raised, we discussed them. But this is a complex task and a challenging mission that President Trump took upon himself—fair enough, I say without irony, because achieving consensus among conflicting parties is no easy task. But President Trump, truly, I believe, he sincerely tries to do this. ...
