MOSCOW.- He Kremlin He indicated this Sunday that he hopes to receive “very soon” in Moscow the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the White House advisor and son-in-law of Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, in the midst of the deteriorating talks with Ukraine to end the conflict, which has already entered its fifth year.
“I think that very soon, our regular colleagues, Steve Witkoff and Kushner, will come to Moscow and we will continue our dialogue with them,” his adviser, Yuri Ushakov, told Russian state television. Dress.
He assured that the Government of USA maintains interest in the conflict in Ukraine, citing recent telephone contacts between its president and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Witkoff and Kushner, main United States representative to mediate between Ukraine and Russia, were last in Moscow in January of this year, without making progress in peace talks.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Saturday of violating a three-day ceasefire brokered by the United States and announced by President Donald Trump. The ceasefire also includes an exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each country.
The Russian Defense Ministry assured that “despite the ceasefire declaration, Ukrainian armed groups launched drone and artillery attacks against the positions of our troops.”
Ukraine complained about Russian failure to comply with the agreed truce. “Since the beginning of the day, the number of attacks by the aggressor has reached 51,” the Ukrainian General Staff said.
Kidnapping of Ukrainian children
The foreign ministers of the 27 will discuss this Monday in Brussels the imposition of new sanctions against the Russians responsible for the kidnapping of Ukrainian children as well as restrictive measures against Israeli settlers due to the violence carried out from their settlements in the West Bank.
Both files could receive final political approval at the Foreign Affairs Council (CAE) taking place in the community capital if the necessary unanimity is reached among all member states for their approval, according to European sources.
The sanctions linked to the deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia are the ones that are most likely to emerge, since they are expected to be formalized after a bilateral face-to-face meeting with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, first; and with Canada’s head of diplomacy, Anita Anand, later.
