Vladimir Putin met with the specialized US President Stephen Witkoff and handed Donald Trump “Information and additional signals”, TASS said with reference to the Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Putin met with Whitkoff late in the evening, and on the morning of March 14, at about 11:00, the special representative of the White House left Russia, clarified the news agency with reference to his source.
What exactly Putin and Whitkoff were talking about, Peskov did not tell. According to him, "additional information was provided to the Russian side."
Trump's special beam came to Moscow after negotiations of representatives of the United States and Ukraine, held on March 11 in Saudi Arabia. According to the results of the negotiations, Ukraine agreed to the US proposal to introduce a temporary ceasefire for 30 days, which "can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties."
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The ceasefire must be adopted and completed simultaneously with Russia, the negotiation participants said.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky latersaid that he was hoping for new American sanctions and strengthening assistance to Ukraine in case of Russia abandoned a truce.
On the morning of March 13, Reuters reported that the Russian leadership transferred the USA a list of conditions for termination of hostilities. The sources of the news agency called the conditions similar to those that were previously nominated by Ukraine, the USA and NATO.
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Among the requirements were the refusal of Ukraine from membership in NATO, the refusal to expand the North Atlantic Alliance, the refusal to place foreign peacekeepers in the Ukrainian territory, as well as recognition of Russia the right to annexed Crimea, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Lugansk and Donetsk regions.
On March 13, Assistant Putin, Assistant Putin, said that he set out the position of the Russian leadership in a conversation with the US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. Ushakov in an interview with Russia-1 television channel said that the goal of Russia is a “long-term peaceful settlement”, and not a temporary ceasefire. “Some steps that imitate peaceful actions, it seems to me, no one needs in this situation,” said Putin's assistant.
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