U.S. President Donald Trump has described the discussions held with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the proposed U.S. ceasefire agreement in Ukraine as “good and productive.”
This comes after Putin and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met in Moscow on Thursday evening, after which the Kremlin stated it shared the U.S.’s “cautious optimism” about the peace process.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the talks provided “a very good chance that this terrible, bloody war might finally come to an end.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, however, accused Putin of attempting to drag out talks in order to continue the war, while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that the Russian president should not be allowed to “play games” with ceasefire proposals.
Earlier this week, Ukraine accepted the ceasefire proposal put forward by the U.S., which Russia has yet to agree to.
On Thursday, Putin said that the idea of a ceasefire was “right and we support it… but there are nuances,” and he laid out a series of difficult conditions for peace, a response Zelensky called “manipulative,” as reported by BBC.
