While the Trump administration engages in preliminary talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, U.S. and allied intelligence reveals that Russian President Vladimir Putin aims to maintain control over the entire country. Despite Putin sending representatives to Saudi Arabia for negotiations with the U.S., intelligence suggests he believes he can outlast Ukraine and Europe, viewing the current losses on the battlefield as insufficient to force a ceasefire. Trump, however, maintains that Putin desires to end the fighting and that both Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy expressed a willingness to negotiate a peace deal.
As the Trump administration begins preliminary talks with Russian officials about ending the war in Ukraine, intelligence from the United States and close allies shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to control all of Ukraine, according to four Western intelligence officials and two U.S. congressional officials. “We have zero intelligence that Putin is interested in a real peace deal right now,” one of the congressional officials said.
Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, flew on his private plane to Moscow to retrieve Fogel, and Trump told reporters Sunday that while Witkoff was there, he met with Putin for about three hours. The administration has not shared further details of that meeting. Witkoff is now part of a negotiating team Trump announced last week, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and national security adviser Michael Waltz.
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