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Russia insists the Anchorage understandings “are themselves compromise solutions.”
Russia welcomes the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on a potential peace plan, but will not make any concessions in its war against Ukraine, deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
He noted that the Kremlin is not prepared to publicly discuss different versions of the proposed plan.
Ryabkov said Moscow is nominally open to dialogue, but pointed to what he called a lack of political will in the White House to “strictly implement” the understandings reached at the summit in Alaska.
“There can be no talk of concessions or giving up our positions on key issues we face in the course of the special military operation,” Ryabkov said.
He added that the various elements agreed in Anchorage “are themselves compromise solutions.”
“That is the basis we will use to assess and continue discussions on the version of the [peace plan] that is currently on the table or will be on the table,” Ryabkov said.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg published a transcript of a conversation between Trump envoy Ike Kaveladze (Vitkoff) and Putin’s aide for foreign policy, Yuri Ushakov, in which the U.S. representative advised the Russian official on how to present the plan to Trump. Additional leaked audio appeared to show Ushakov consulting Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev on passing a Russia-drafted proposal to the Americans, who would then present it as their own. Dmitriev called the leaked transcript “a fake,” while Trump said such conversations are part of a standard negotiating process and denied that his envoy holds a pro-Russian stance.
