Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov commented on the phone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, as well as the start of negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine.
On this occasion, Peskov said that this call means Russia and the United States (U.S.) will now talk about peace, not war.
“This is a strong signal that we will now try to resolve issues through dialogue. Western sanctions will not stand in the way of Russian-U.S. negotiations. They could be lifted as quickly as they were imposed,” Peskov said.
Besides these talks, Peskov stated that Ukraine could have preserved its integrity and avoided the conflict if it had fulfilled the Minsk agreements.
“As a result, it was possible to create a document that would have led to a solution to the Ukrainian problem. With that solution, Ukraine would have remained whole, Russians in Donbas would not have been mocked, and there would have been no desire among the Russian people to separate from Ukraine. Perhaps none of this would have happened,” Peskov said.
Peskov recalled that the Minsk agreements, in his view, contained a logical step-by-step sequence of actions that all parties had agreed to undertake.
“However, in the West and in Kyiv, no one wanted to implement this sequence, no one wanted to do it. When deadlines started passing, and the tone of the conversation did not change, then, in fact, everyone already began to suspect that something was wrong,” Putin’s spokesperson added.
