Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine are “very close to the deal”

US President Donald Trump said that Russia and Ukraine are “very close to a deal”, hours after his envoy Steve Witkeov and Russian President Vladimir Putin are criminals in Moscow.

Trump said it was a “good day” for negotiations, while the Kremlin described the talks – in which Ukraine was not present – as a “constructive”.

Earlier, Trump said on social media that “most of the main points are agreed”, and Russia and Ukraine urged meeting “at very high levels” and “to end them [the deal] on”.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski said in his video speech late on Friday that “real pressure on Russia” to accept an unconditional ceasefire.

Earlier in the day, Zelinski BBC told the regional issues between Kiev and Moscow if it is agreed to “a full and unconditional and unconditional ceasefire.

Reports indicate that Ukraine is expected to give up large parts of the lands that Russia includes under an American peace proposal.

Trump – who spoke to correspondents upon his arrival in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday – he will support Russia in preserving the Crimea, which was illegally included by Moscow in 2014. Zelinski rejects this idea.

Russia launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and Moscow is currently controlling nearly 20 % of Ukrainian lands.

On Friday, traffic stopped in Moscow when the caravan that carries and takoff arrived before high -level talks, the fourth of this visit to Russia since the beginning of the year.

Three -hour conversations were described as “very useful” by Putin Urie Oshakov.

He said he has approached Russian and American positions, not only on Ukraine, but also in a set of other international issues.

He added: “Specifically on the Ukrainian crisis, the possibility of resuming direct talks between Russian and Ukrainian actors in particular was discussed.”

Earlier this week, Putin referred for the first time since the early stages of the war He was open to the conversations with Zelinski.

He believes that his statements were in response to a proposal from the Ukrainian president to extend the Easter truce for 30 hours for 30 days. No truce was agreed.

Kiev was at the recipient of Trump’s increasing pressure to accept regional concessions as part of an agreement with Moscow to end the war.

Crimea has become a certain flash point.

Zelinski has repeatedly rejected the idea of ​​getting to know the peninsula as part of Russia, and reporters in Kiev told Kiev on Friday: “Our position has not changed – only the Ukrainian people have the right to decide the Ukrainian lands.”

However, in subsequent observations, I suggested to the BBC that “a full and unconditional shooting stop opens the possibility of discussing everything.”

He also pointed to the comments made by Trump in Interview with Time MagazineThe US President said, “Crimea will remain with Russia.”

“What President Trump says is correct, and I agree with him on that day we do not have enough weapons to re -control the Crimea,” Zellinski said.

The peace plan has not been publicly launched in Washington, but reports indicate that it suggests that Russia maintains the land it has acquired – a case in favor of Moscow.

On Friday, Reuters reported that it had watched the US -delivered proposals to European officials last week, as well as subsequent anti -Europe and Ukraine programs.

She said that there are great differences between them.

The American deal provides American legal acceptance of the illegal annexation of Russia of the Crimea and actual recognition of Russian control over other occupied areas, including all Luhansk.

On the contrary, the Europeans and Ukrainians will only discuss what is happening to the occupied Ukrainian region after the start of the ceasefire.

The American plan also excludes Ukraine’s membership in the NATO military alliance, according to Reuters.

When the meeting between Witkoff and Putin was taking place, Trump claimed that the talks were going in the right direction.

“They are meeting with Putin at the present time, we are talking, we have a lot of things, and I think we will finish with many good deals, including tariff deals and commercial deals,” he told reporters in the United States.

He said that his goal is that it is a limit to fight in Ukraine, who said he claims that the lives of 5,000 Ukrainians and the Russians per week, adding that he believed “we are very close” to a peace deal.

Trump also said that Zelinski had not signed “the final papers on the very important rare land deal with the United States.”

“He was at least three weeks late,” he said, adding that he hopes to be signed “immediately.”

The long -awaited metal deal was supposed to be signed, which would give the United States a stake in abundant natural resources deposits in Ukraine in February, but it went out of its course after a sharp meeting between Trump and Zelinski in Washington.

Russia and Ukraine’s positions in securing a peace agreement are still in the past miles, with no representative from Ukraine to participate in the talks in Moscow.

Getting on social media on Friday, Zelinski criticized Russia to Failure to agree to a 30 -day ceasefire proposed by the United States on March 11 He urged the allies to exercise more pressure on it.

“45 days have passed since Ukraine agreed to President Trump’s proposal to calm down in the sky and the sea and the confrontation line,” he said. “Russia rejects all this. Without pressure this cannot be resolved. Pressure on Russia is necessary.”

He said that Russia is allowed to import missiles from countries like North Korea, which he said was used after that A deadly missile strike on Kyiv On Thursday, which killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

“Insufficient pressure on North Korea and its allies allow them to make such ballistic missiles. The missile that killed Kiev’s residents containing at least 116 pieces imported from other countries, most of them, unfortunately, American companies were made,” Zelinski claimed.

After the attack on Kiev, Trump said he “puts a lot of pressure” on both sides to end the war, and Putin took directly in a post on social media, Say: “Vladimir stopped!”

Since then, Trump blamed Kiev for the start of the war, and told Time magazine: “I think what caused the war when they were [Ukraine] We started talking about joining NATO. “