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Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe.

In remarks to Russian media, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that after a five-hour meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the two sides were “neither further nor closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There is a lot of work to be done.”

The downbeat assessment of Tuesday night’s diplomacy follows combative opening statements from Putin as Witkoff and Kushnerarrived for talks at the Kremlin, in which he accused European powers of sabotaging peace in Ukraine and that “European demands” on ending the war were “not acceptable to Russia”.

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[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Except this time the fascist states are nuclear capable. The idea here is to avoid nuclear war.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

The idea here is to avoid nuclear war.

The USSR was nuclear-capable when it collapsed. Russia was nuclear-capable while failing in Afghanistan, and also has been in its so-far failed attack on Ukraine. Same goes for the US in Vietnam and in Afghanistan. A country having nukes doesn't mean you have to comply with its every whim.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Then they should leave Ukraine.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

That's always been a lopsided proposition for Russia in this invasion. The prevailing winds blow east and they'd be poisoning themselves as much as anyone.

You know, like Chernobyl which they also bombed.

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