On Thursday, while Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted that Putin “has repeatedly said that he is ready to meet” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he then immediately produced a raft of fresh obstacles to ensure any prospect of a direct encounter between the two men is derailed.
“In the event of signing agreements with Ukraine”, he said, “it will be necessary to resolve the issue of the legitimacy of the signatory from Kyiv”. That’s a reference to Moscow’s repeated insistence that Ukraine’s election, delayed since last year because the country has come under continuing Russian attack, has left Zelensky with no mandate to remain in office. Taken to its logical conclusion, Lavrov was indicating there will be no bilateral meeting with Putin until Zelensky either wins a fresh mandate, or his successor is in place.
Sergei Lavrov, right, pictured with India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, on Thursday, has indicated that there will be no bilateral with Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko / AFP via Getty Images)That will come as a shock to US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. Only last weekend, he told CNN that there had been a “breakthrough” at the Alaska summit, where he alleged that Putin had agreed to “effectively offer Article 5-like language” modelled on Nato’s charter to govern the presence of European peacekeepers in Ukraine. The Russians have now dismissed that assertion entirely, rejecting not only the concept of American boots on the ground, but the boots of Washington’s Nato allies as well.
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Trump’s contribution to the discussion on Thursday consisted of a message posted on his social media account hours after Russian missiles destroyed an American-owned electronics factory in western Ukraine. “It is very hard, if not impossible to win a war without attacking an invaders country [sic]”, he wrote, comparing Ukraine to “a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but it not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of WINNING.”
Moscow certainly appeared to read Trump’s message as an effort to inflame the situation. On Thursday, Putin “congratulated workers and veterans” in a message marking the 80th anniversary of the country’s nuclear industry. “Their professionalism and dedicated work”, he noted, had created “a reliable nuclear shield for the Motherland”.
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