Vladimir Putin says he has reached a “understanding” with Donald Trump at the end of the war

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he reached “understandings” with US President Donald Trump at the end of the Ukraine war, at their meeting in Alaska last month.

But he did not say whether he would agree to the peace talks with Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski, who was in Trump, who had apparently gave the two at a deadline for Putin’s response.

Speaking during a summit in China, Putin continued to defend his decision to invade Ukraine, and he blamed the war in the West again.

the next Alaska meetingThe US Steve Wittakov’s private envoy said that Putin has agreed to Ukraine security guarantees as part of a possible peace agreement in the future, although Moscow has not confirmed this yet.

Putin was speaking at Tianjin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, where she met Xi Jinping and Narringra Modi.

He thanked the Chinese and Indian leaders for their support and efforts to “facilitate the solution to the Ukrainian crisis.”

China and India are the largest buyers of Russian crude oil, attracting criticism from the West that they support the Russian economy that was beaten through the war effort.

In his speech, Putin also said that “the understandings that have arrived” in his meeting with Trump in Alaska are “I hope that you will move in this direction, and open the way to peace in Ukraine.”

At the same time, he repeated his opinion that “this crisis did not cause Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but it was the result of a coup in Ukraine, which was supported by the West.”

It also attributed the war to “the continuous attempts of the West to withdraw Ukraine to NATO.”

The Russian president continuously opposed the idea of ​​Ukraine joining the Western Military Alliance.

In 2014, Putin seized the Crimea and grabbed Russian agents as part of eastern Ukraine. Years later, in February 2022, Then Putin ordered Russia’s extensive invasion of Ukraine.

Putin’s latest comments come days after Russia’s launch The second largest air attack On Ukraine in the war.

On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Putin had a final date on Monday that Trump has set to agree to peace talks with Zelinski.

Macron said: “If the Russian leader does not agree,” President Putin will again appear to play President Trump, “Macron said.

But in an interview with CNN, on August 22, Trump gave himself Putin a “a few weeks” to give a response before the United States took a measure, in the last series of warning and final dates he issued to the Russian leader.

Trump had previously said he could solve the Ukraine war in one day.

After meeting with Putin last month, Trump fell from the demand for a ceasefire and instead called for a permanent peace deal.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski also met with senior European leaders who made an urgent visit to Washington, DC.

Trump insisted that there will be no “not going to NATO by Ukraine” as part of a peace deal.

But he also hinted that there were security guarantees, saying that Europe was the “first line of defense” and that the United States would participate.

“We will give them good protection,” although he made it clear that this will not mean sending US forces to Ukraine.

He told President Steve Witkeov CNN as well Putin agreed to security guarantees.

He said that this will testify that the United States and Europe “are effectively providing a language similar to Article 5 to cover a security guarantee,” referring to Ben NATO, which states that member states must defend another member who was attacked.

Zelensky said he expects a frame of paper guarantees on paper as soon as possible this week.

But last Friday, Russia criticized Western proposals as “unilaterally and clearly designed to contain Russia,” adding that it turned Kiev into “strategic provocative”.

Russian attacks also continued. Last Thursday, Moscow launched 629 drones in Kiev, killing 23 people in one of the largest air attacks in the war so far, which prompted anger from European leaders.

Germany and France have since pledged to pressure Russia to agree to a deal.

Meanwhile, Zelensky Suggestions rejected by a buffer zone With Russia as part of a peace deal.

Russia has been accused of not preparing diplomacy and looking for ways to postpone the end of the war.