Trump wants to call Putin, Ukraine is ready to ease sanctions. What the media is writing
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US President Donald Trump intends to call Russian leader Vladimir Putin again soon to discuss the conflict in Ukraine. According to him, the territorial issue will also be discussed. Meanwhile, Kiev is allowing sanctions against Moscow to be eased, and France has refused to send soldiers en masse. What the world's media write is in the Izvestia digest.
Reuters: Trump wants to call Putin
Trump said he plans to speak with Putin on Tuesday, March 18, and discuss ending the conflict in Ukraine after positive talks between U.S. and Russian officials in Moscow. Trump will try to gain Putin's support for the 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week.
Reuters
"We want to see if we can put an end to this <military operation>," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One during a late return flight to the Washington area from Florida. — Maybe we can, maybe not, but I think we have a very good chance. I will be speaking with President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work was done over the weekend."
The Kremlin said on March 14 that Putin had sent a message to Trump about his ceasefire plan through U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who held talks in Moscow, expressing "cautious optimism" about the possibility of reaching an agreement that would end the three-year conflict. In separate speeches over the weekend in the United States, Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz stressed that a number of issues still need to be resolved before Russia agrees to a cease-fire.
CNN: Trump will discuss territories and power plants at the talks
Trump said that the negotiators had already identified some topics for discussion. They will address the issue of the distribution of territories and ensuring security at infrastructure facilities. According to him, the parties have already touched upon these topics in the early negotiations.
CNN
"We will talk about the earth. Many lands are very different now from what they were before the <military operation>, as you know. We're going to talk about land, we're going to talk about power plants, that's a big question," he added. — But I think we have already discussed a lot, a lot, by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about this — about the division of certain assets.""
Territorial claims are among the most sensitive issues that have yet to be resolved. American officials have said that Ukraine will most likely have to cede territory for the conflict to end, and Putin has made this a condition of a truce. Trump's special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, said the ongoing negotiations on Ukraine were productive, but did not say how the issue of territorial concessions would be resolved.
The New York Times: The United States withdrew from the investigation team in Ukraine
The U.S. Department of Justice has quietly informed European officials that the United States is withdrawing from a multinational panel set up to investigate the conflict in Ukraine. This decision was the latest evidence of the Trump administration's departure from President Joe Biden's commitment to hold Russians accountable.
The New York Times
According to sources familiar with the situation, the decision is expected to be announced on Monday in an email to staff and members of the group's parent organization, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, better known as Eurojust. The United States was the only country outside Europe to cooperate with the group, sending a senior Justice Department prosecutor to The Hague to work with investigators from Ukraine, the Baltic States, and Romania.
The Trump administration is also reducing the work of the investigative team, created in 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland and staffed by experienced prosecutors. She was called upon to coordinate the efforts of the Ministry of Justice to bring Russians to justice. The White House's decision is explained by the need to reallocate budget resources.
The Guardian: Macron announced a possible targeted deployment of the military to Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he, along with Britain and other countries providing security guarantees to Ukraine, will not seek to deploy a "massive" contingent of soldiers. Instead, contingents of several thousand troops may be sent to key locations in Ukraine.
The Guardian
He said this could include "several thousand military personnel" from each state stationed at "key locations" in Ukraine to conduct training programs and "show our long-term support." Macron added that the proposed contingents from the countries of the NATO alliance would serve as a "guarantee of security" for Ukraine and that "several European countries, as well as non-European ones, have expressed their willingness to join such efforts when this is confirmed."
Moscow strongly opposed such a deployment, but Macron said its permission was not required. He said that if Ukraine requests allied forces on its territory, "Russia should not accept or reject them." On March 17, the French president will meet with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and then with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss Ukraine before the EU summit.
Politico: Ukraine is open to easing sanctions against Russia as part of a peace agreement
Western sanctions against Russia may eventually be lifted if it helps ensure security and justice in Ukraine, said Vladislav Vlasyuk, President Vladimir Zelensky's commissioner for sanctions policy. According to him, the return of countries doing business with Russia in one way or another is "just a matter of time," but it must happen if the appropriate conditions are met.
Politico
At the moment, the senior official said, "it is premature to talk about which sanctions relief should be part of any agreements. We just want to make sure at the moment that Russia takes significant steps in this direction first, and then there will be any discussion of lifting sanctions."
Vlasyuk, who is also the secretary of the International Working Group on Sanctions against Russia, said that under any long-term agreement, Kiev would also seek "justice," meaning material compensation. He also raised the possibility of European countries concluding new agreements on the purchase of Russian oil and gas if and when the conflict finally ends.
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