U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's crew has not introduced something "attention-grabbing" to Moscow concerning ending the conflict in Ukraine, Russia's envoy to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya, stated on Jan. 3 in an interview with the state-controlled Rossiya-1 TV channel.
Earlier studies from the Wall Road Journal indicated that Trump’s crew is contemplating a plan to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership by not less than 20 years in trade for continued Western arms provides and the deployment of European peacekeepers to watch a ceasefire.
Nebenzya dismissed these concepts as "unformed, obscure indicators" and reiterated Moscow’s place in opposition to freezing the battle.
"President (Vladimir) Putin final outlined our situations for ending the battle on Dec. 19. To date, nothing from the incoming U.S. administration suggests something of curiosity to us," Nebenzya stated.
On Dec. 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated his willingness to interact in dialogue with Trump however upheld Moscow’s calls for, together with the will to completely occupy 4 Ukrainian areas — Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — and a rejection of Ukraine’s NATO membership.
Nebenzya additionally claimed to have acquired "indicators of agreements" from Ukraine, although he rejected them as unserious.
Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed dissatisfaction with Trump’s reported peace deal proposals on Dec. 29, saying that Moscow rejects any plan that fails to fulfill its calls for.
Regardless of Trump’s claims of reaching peace "inside 24 hours," his crew has but to supply an official roadmap for ending the conflict.
The Kyiv IndependentTim Zadorozhnyy