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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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[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 39 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Now he's ready for war now that his puppet is back in power.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, anyone seeing this as Putin doing jackshit is kidding themselves.

This is about having the US attack Europe. Or maybe just Ukraine. Who knows.

It doesn't really matter. What matters is that the US is compromised, and Europe needs to be ready for that yesterday.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t see an appetite in the states for war with Venezuela, a nation we’ve been conditioned to think of as godless socialists for 20+ years, let alone one with NATO allies. Trump doesn’t have unlimited power, as much as he wishes he does.

Either way, Europe should be gearing up.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I concur that a fight against EU is just completely unlikely, I do think Venezuela is possible since his administration has pretty much been giving free reign and seems to have their heart set on it...

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I don't think having the US attack them is in the cards, but I could see them sitting such a conflict out.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago

The original headline was doctored by The Guardian to promote warmongering in Europe, and has been edited since (not reflected on the post title as of my comment). Putin's actual words were “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”, you can find it inside the article some paragraphs in.