{"id":57491,"date":"2025-12-02T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=57491"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:07:53","slug":"vladimir-putin-accuses-europeans-of-sabotaging-ukraine-peace-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=57491","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin accuses Europeans of sabotaging Ukraine peace push"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=c75d976f-e22a-4c95-9a14-fc6677511b15&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Vladimir Putin accused European countries on Tuesday of undermining Washington\u2019s efforts to end the war in Ukraine, as US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with the Russian president in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Putin on Tuesday said: \u201cThey [the Europeans] have no peace agenda. They are on the side of war. And even when they try to make supposed adjustments to [Donald] Trump\u2019s proposal, it is clear that these changes aim at one purpose: to block the entire peace process.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the \u201cRussia Calling!\u201d investment forum in Moscow, he added: \u201cThey put forward demands they know are entirely unacceptable for Russia, and then aim to pin the collapse of the peace process on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a belligerent speech, Putin threatened to \u201ccut Ukraine off from the sea entirely\u201d in retaliation for attacks on Russia-linked tankers. <\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cwe have no intention of fighting Europe \u2014 I\u2019ve said this a hundred times. But if Europe decides to start a war, we are ready right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff\u2019s visit came after Russian officials said they were open to discussing a peace plan drawn up by the US envoy with Moscow\u2019s input, but resisted a revised, shorter version incorporating changes from Ukrainian officials. The full terms of that revised plan have not been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of negotiations the Kremlin claimed Russian forces had seized Pokrovsk, a town in Donetsk province that they fought to take for well over a year while sustaining enormous casualties, as well as Vovchansk in Kharkiv. <\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Valery Gerasimov, Russia\u2019s top military commander, had reported the gains to Russia\u2019s president during a visit to a command post on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Putin said Krasnoarmeysk, Russia\u2019s name for Pokrovsk, was \u201cfully under the control of the Russian army. If anyone has doubts, we invite foreign journalists \u2014 including Ukrainian reporters \u2014 to see for themselves who actually holds the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gerasimov has previously made inflated assertions about Russian gains, including the alleged encirclement of Pokrovsk. Andriy Kovalenko, an official in Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council, dismissed Moscow\u2019s claims as a \u201ccognitive show\u201d aimed at impressing US negotiators. <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s general staff of the armed forces said: \u201cThe boastful statements of the leadership of the aggressor state regarding the \u2018capture\u2019 of these settlements by the Russian army do not correspond to reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is merely yet another attempt by the Kremlin to use a staged \u2018flag-planting\u2019 video for propaganda purposes in order to influence participants in international negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff\u2019s visit to Moscow is his sixth this year, but the first in which he has not travelled alone: he was joined by the US president\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has taken on a more active advisory role in the peace talks since he helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. <\/p>\n<p>A gulf remains between Ukraine and Russia on territorial concessions and postwar security guarantees.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"appsbkaz\" class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\"  width=\"2289\" height=\"1526\"><source media=\"(max-width: 490px)\"  width=\"1896\" height=\"1527\"><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>From left: Steve Witkoff, secretary of state Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner during a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Terry Renna\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A major sticking point is Russia\u2019s insistence that Ukrainian forces give up the remaining one-fifth of Donetsk province they still hold nearly four years after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion. Kyiv insists any negotiation on territory must begin from the current line of control, a point Trump himself made after his October meeting with Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials are concerned Witkoff will again side with Moscow during this week\u2019s talks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has happened many times where we had co-ordinated our position with the US and then Witkoff goes to Moscow and, after seeing Putin, Trump puts out a statement that takes us back to square one,\u201d said a senior Ukrainian official. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"kejyovhx\" class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\"  width=\"1761\" height=\"1174\"><source media=\"(max-width: 490px)\"  width=\"1247\" height=\"1247\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net\/production\/186fc277-db1d-4b03-a10c-87d06bd0ba3f.jpg\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin, in military uniform, sits at a desk holding papers and a pen, with documents spread out before him.\" data-image-type=\"image\" width=\"1761\" height=\"1174\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>Vladimir Putin during a visit to a Russian command post on Monday<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Kremlin.ru\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During a phone call with Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, Witkoff agreed that Ukraine\u2019s surrender of the rest of Donetsk was a prerequisite for a deal, according to a leaked recording of the conversation reported by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the Irish parliament on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not address the talks between Washington and Moscow but said it was time for seized Russian assets to be used to help rebuild his country. \u201cThe aggressor must be held accountable for what was done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On the battlefield, Deep State, a Ukrainian analytical group close to the defence ministry that tracks the frontline, on Monday evening said the \u201csituation remains critical\u201d in and around Pokrovsk but that the battle for the stronghold and its satellite city of Myrnohrad continued. <\/p>\n<p>Russian forces were \u201ctrying to establish physical control\u201d in contested areas, it said, while laying mines and military obstacles and staging ambushes.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Defence Strategies, a Kyiv-based security think-tank, said Russian forces controlled at least half of Pokrovsk. \u201cThe enemy has an advantage in manpower and is attempting to accumulate assault infantry\u201d around the city, it wrote in a briefing on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>CDS said pressure from three sides was forcing Ukrainian forces in Myrnohrad \u201cto withdraw to avoid encirclement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian forces are advancing slowly but have not been able to fully capture Pokrovsk, even though they entered the city more than 120 days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Shane Harrison in Dublin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c75d976f-e22a-4c95-9a14-fc6677511b15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world Vladimir Putin accused European countries on Tuesday of undermining Washington\u2019s efforts to end the war in Ukraine, as US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with the Russian president in Moscow. 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