Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire since returning to the White House but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin despite repeated negotiations between Russian and US officials.
“Russia has to get moving,“ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, adding that the conflict -- which began more than three years ago when Moscow sent troops into Ukraine -- was “senseless” and “should have never happened”.
And after accusing Moscow of dragging Beijing into its invasion, Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that hundreds of Chinese nationals were fighting at the Ukraine frontline alongside Russia.
“There is no need to expect any breakthroughs here, the process of normalising relations is ongoing,“ Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian state media.
Witkoff has held two previous meetings with Putin in Russia since Trump’s return in January.
The envoy’s praise of a president long seen by the United States as an autocratic adversary highlights the dramatic turn in Washington’s approach to dealings with the Kremlin since Trump took office for a second term.
Kyiv said this week that its forces had captured two Chinese nationals in the eastern Donetsk region fighting for Moscow.
“As of now, we have information that at least several hundred Chinese nationals are fighting as part of Russia’s occupation forces,“ Zelensky told military chiefs from allied countries in Brussels.
The Ukrainian leader also called out Russia for having refused a complete ceasefire proposed by the United States with Ukrainian approval a month ago.
‘Restore trust’
On Thursday, Russia freed dual US-Russian ballet dancer Ksenia Karelina from prison in exchange for suspected tech smuggler Arthur Petrov, the second exchange between Moscow and Washington in less than two months.
The head of Moscow’s foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, said Friday that Russia would discuss more prisoner swaps in the future.
“It helps build trust, which is much needed, but it will take a long time to finally restore it,“ he told reporters.
But despite a flurry of diplomacy, there has been little meaningful progress on Trump’s main aim of achieving a Ukraine ceasefire.
But no formal agreement was put in place and both sides have accused the other of continuing such attacks.
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