Russian leader Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump by telephone on Thursday that Moscow will not 'give up' on its aims in Ukraine, the Kremlin said. The pair spoke as US-led peace talks on ending the more than three-year-old conflict in Ukraine have stalled and after Washington paused some weapons shipments to Kyiv.
Amazon set to have more robots than human workers in warehousesRussian leader Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump by telephone on Thursday that Moscow will not"give up" on its aims in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
The pair spoke as US-led peace talks on ending the more than three-year-old conflict in Ukraine have stalled and after Washington paused some weapons shipments to Kyiv.Trump has been frustrated with both Moscow and Kyiv as US efforts to end fighting have yielded no breakthrough. "Our president said that Russia will achieve the aims it set, that is to say the elimination of the root causes that led to the current state of affairs," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters.Moscow has long described its maximalist aims in Ukraine as getting rid of the"root causes" of the conflict, demanding that Kyiv give up its NATO ambitions. Moscow's offensive in Ukraine has killed hundreds of thousands of people and Russia now controls large swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine."He also spoke of the readiness of the Russian side to continue the negotiation process," Ushakov added. "Vladimir Putin said that we are continuing to look for a political, negotiated solution to the conflict," Ushakov said.Kyiv and its Western allies have accused Putin of dragging out the process while pushing on with Russia's advance in Ukraine. The Kremlin said that Putin had also"stressed" to Trump that all conflicts in the Middle East should be solved"diplomatically", after the US struck nuclear sites in Russia's ally Iran. Putin and Trump spoke as Kyiv said that Russian strikes on Thursday killed at least eight people in Ukraine.A senior Ukrainian official told AFP that Trump and Zelensky planned to speak to each other on Friday. The US deciding to pause some weapons shipments has severely hampered Kyiv, which has been reliant on Western military support since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022. Zelensky told EU allies in Denmark that doubts over US military aid reinforced the need for greater cooperation with Brussels and NATO.On Wednesday, Kyiv scrambled to clarify with the US what a White House announcement on pausing some weapons shipments meant. "Continued American support for Ukraine, for our defence, for our people is in our common interest," Zelensky had said on Wednesday.A senior Chinese official accused the United States defence chief on Thursday of"inciting confrontation and conflict" after he urged American allies ...
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