Putin Warns Business Leaders of ‘Slow and Difficult’ Ukraine Ceasefire Talks

He has reached the compulsory retirement age of 70 and although he could stay in post by presidential decree, where his failings come in is in that he doesn't have the political capital to get that, even if he wants to,

Galeotti wrote

Mr. Waltz and I agreed that consultations on this account in a bilateral format will be held by experts appointed by the presidents. These consultations will take place in Riyadh on Monday, March 24. Head of the Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Grigory Karasin and advisor to the Federal Security Service director Sergei Beseda will participate in them on the Russian side."

Ushakov said about the current negotiations, after a call with U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Wednesday

But now I've learned from my sources that this 'mere questioning' didn't save Beseda from a cell in Lefortovo Prison,

he wrote in an opinion piece for independent Russian publication The Moscow Times

We discussed the arrangement of a meeting between expert groups of the two countries to start primarily with exploring prospects for possibly implementing the well-known initiative concerning the safety of navigation in the Black Sea."

He added

The Europeans can complain as much as they want, but only Washington and Moscow really matter and it is good that we are talking,

said one Russian official

S. Jaishankarexternal Affairs

We have tried on one side to speak to the Russian leadership, on the other hand, to engage the Ukrainian leadership,

said Indian Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar

We want to be ready to answer questions like, ‘Should a Russian be invited to the next conference?’

Franke said

Seeing Russians here talking of peace while they bomb Ukrainian children and pretend it’s justified just makes my skin crawl,

fumed one Eastern European diplomat

Vladimir Putinpresident

I have not seen such headlines.”

When asked how Russia bombing Kyiv within hours of Trump’s call with Putin showed Moscow was interested in peace, the Russian official shrugged and replied

For the first time, there is a potential end in sight,

he said

If the Americans want to take the station from the Russians and they want to invest there and modernise it, that is a completely different issue,

he said

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

I don’t want there to be a different understanding of what the parties will agree on,

Zelensky said

The west believed that nonsense and that’s great,

said Mikhail Zvinchuk, a popular Russian military blogger and propagandist, during an online stream

We didn’t talk about aid, actually, we didn’t talk about aid at all,

Trump said

The president advised us not to be naive and to understand how many people and interests are involved in the processes currently taking place,

Rustamova quoted another source as saying

You basically say, 'Okay, what are your terms?' And you go to the other side, 'What are your terms?'

Kellogg said

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

By now, there could have been over a week without killings, without strikes, without fire – if Putin were not the only one keeping this war going

Zelensky said

There is absolutely no self-interest from the US side in lifting sanctions on Russian military."

Shkurenko

This is the exact wrong time to take the foot off the gas,

Benjamin Hilgenstock, KSE senior economist and one of the report's coauthors, told Newsweek

I don’t think that in this situation [the Russians] will resort to deliberately damaging the station’s parts, because the station is a subject of negotiations and haggling,

a former engineer who fled the plant in 2023, but still maintains ties with former colleagues, told Al Jazeera