Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Moscow, August 6.- Russian President Vladimir Putin met this Wednesday with White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who traveled to Moscow.
The conversation lasted approximately three hours.
The meeting took place amid repeated threats by US President Donald Trump to introduce tariffs and other economic restrictions on Moscow if a peace agreement with Kyiv was not reached. However, the White House resident admitted that Russian authorities know how to avoid sanctions and mitigate their consequences and doubted the effectiveness of new economic restrictions against Russia in achieving results in the Ukrainian conflict.
The previous meeting between Putin and Witkoff took place in April, when the possibility of resuming direct negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv was discussed. A month later, the two sides held their first talks in three years in Istanbul, Turkey.
Moscow's proposal calls for Kyiv to completely withdraw its troops from the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson provinces (which joined Russia after popular consultations in 2022) and recognize these territories, as well as Crimea and Sevastopol, as subjects of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, neutrality and non-alignment, as well as the denuclearization, demilitarization, and denazification of Ukraine, must be guaranteed. (Text and photo: RT)
