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Ukrainian Delegation Meets With Trump Team Representatives

© AP Photo / Mariam ZuhaibThe American and Ukrainian flags wave in the wind outside of the Capitol on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington. The Senate is moving ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
The American and Ukrainian flags wave in the wind outside of the Capitol on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington. The Senate is moving ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) - Sputnik International, 1920, 05.12.2024
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Ukrainian delegation led by head of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky's office Andriy Yermak met in the United States with Mike Waltz, the future national security adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, and Keith Kellogg, Trump's pick for US envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Reuters reported, citing a source.
Trump earlier vowed to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict through talks. He repeatedly claimed he could resolve it in just one day. Russian officials believe the issue is far too complex for such a simple solution.
A presidential election took place in the United States on November 5. Republican candidate Trump, who served as the US president from 2017 to 2021, was declared the winner by all leading race callers and networks. The Electoral College will vote in accordance with the will of the voters on December 17, and the new Congress will approve the results of the vote on January 6. The presidential inauguration will take place on January 20.
This image taken with a slow shutter speed on Oct. 2, 2019, and provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 - Sputnik International, 1920, 01.12.2024
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In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward initiatives for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine: Moscow will immediately cease fire and declare its readiness for negotiations after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of Russia's new regions. The Russian leader also said Kiev must abandon its plans to join NATO, it must carry out demilitarization and denazification, and also adopt a neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear status. Putin also mentioned in this context the lifting of sanctions against Russia.
After the terrorist attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russia's Kursk Region, Putin said it is impossible to negotiate with those who "indiscriminately strike at civilians, at civilian infrastructure or try to create threats to nuclear power industry facilities."
In this file photo taken from a video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, a rocket launches from missile system as part of a ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile test launched from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia - Sputnik International, 1920, 30.11.2024
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Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov later said Moscow's peaceful proposals for a Ukrainian settlement, voiced earlier by the head of the Russian state, have not been canceled, but at this stage, Russia-Ukraine talks are impossible.
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