US President Donald Trump (Photo: Reuters).
US President Donald Trump and senior advisers are disagreeing whether Moscow really wants to achieve a peaceful solution for the conflict in Ukraine, Wall Street Journal on April 14 citing anonymous source, said.
A group led by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and special envoy about Ukraine Keith Kellogg is promoting a more skeptical approach, an article.
However, Mr. Trump is on the side of the Steve Witkoff, who is said to trust Russia more. Last week, Mr. Witkoff met President Vladimir Putin, after the two held a meeting in March.
This may be the reason why Mr. Kellogg, who was appointed in charge of the Russian -Ukrainian war, was absent in the discussions with Moscow. Meanwhile, Mr. Witkoff, person in charge of the Middle East, became one of the “bridges” between Russia and the US.
The Moscow side still asserts that they are always ready to achieve the core goals in the conflict through diplomatic roads.
The Russian government announced that it would not accept the “freezing” of the war, because it led to the risk of recurring conflict, and cited Ukraine violating the ban on attack on energy infrastructure – proposed by the United States – to prove unnecessary Kiev.
Ukraine also made a similar move, accusing Russia violating the ceasefire against the Kiev’s energy basis. Giới chức Ukraine cũng nhiều lần nhấn mạnh họ không tin vào việc Nga muốn chiến sự khép lại.
An example of Mr. Trump’s side on the Witkoff side mentioned by Wall Street Journal is the missile attack on Smy City on April 13, where Kiev accused Moscow deliberately targeting ordinary people, killing 34 people.
However, Mr. Trump called this a “mistake”, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Rubio called the incident “horrifying”, and Mr. Kellogg thought that it had “overcome all humanitarian boundaries.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that the rocket was launched in a “meeting between the commandersmilitaryUkraine and Western allies “are fake mercenaries.
The Russian Defense Ministry estimated that about 60 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, and accused Kiev to use civilians to “shield” for this meeting.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CBS News on April 13 that Mr. Trump’s criticism against him was a sign that “Russian arguments were winning in the US.”
The leader of Russian negotiating Kirill Dmitriev, after a meeting with US officials earlier this month, expressed concern that Washington was easily affected by foreign corridor campaign groups, while denouncing Western media being conducting a coordinated campaign to destroy the process of normalizing relations between the two countries.
“We witnessed the efforts to misrepresent the Russian message, defamed Russia and our leaders. This happened every day,” said Dmitriev, and affirmed “direct dialogue is the most effective way to smash false information.”
In an interview on Monday with Fox News, Mr. Witkoff said the nearly 5 -hour meeting with Mr. Putin was “convincing” and made the peace process in Ukraine “at the breakthrough”.
