伦敦-克里姆林宫最高外交政策助理称俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京和美国特使史蒂夫·维特科夫周二的会谈是“有用的”，但表示在长达数小时的会议后，尚未找到“妥协方案”。
“还有很多工作要做，”助手尤里·乌沙科夫(Yury Ushakov)在会后告诉记者。
据与唐纳德·特朗普总统的女婿贾里德·库什纳一起参加会议的乌沙科夫称，普京告诉美国人，俄罗斯可以同意美国计划的某些部分，但不同意其他部分。
乌沙科夫说:“总统没有掩饰我们对一些提议的批评甚至否定态度。”
俄罗斯表示愿意继续谈判，乌沙科夫称领土问题是“最重要的问题”乌沙科夫表示，目前普京和特朗普之间没有计划举行会晤，这种会晤将取决于达成和平解决方案的进展。
据俄罗斯官方媒体报道，普京与维特科夫的会晤在当地时间周三午夜后结束，持续了大约五个小时。
早些时候，克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫表示，会议没有时间限制，“只要有必要”，会议就会继续
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基周二早些时候在X上发表帖子说，乌克兰“将在俄罗斯会议后等待美国代表团的信号”，而与维特科夫和普京的讨论仍在进行中。
“美国代表团打算在这些会议之后立即直接向我们通报情况。接下来的步骤将取决于这些信号，”泽连斯基说，并补充说他“准备好与川普会面”。
一名了解会谈情况的乌克兰消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，乌克兰方面曾预计普京会说，“是的，但是……”“这就是所发生的一切。”
“现在的问题是‘但是’到底是什么，以及美国人将如何回应，”该消息人士补充道。
会前，普京警告说，如果欧洲寻求战争，俄罗斯准备打一场战争，并声称欧洲国家正试图改变特朗普关于结束俄罗斯对乌克兰战争的提议。
“我们可以清楚地看到，这些变化的目的只有一个:阻止整个和平进程，”普京周二对记者说，同时指责欧洲“站在战争一边”。
“我们不会与欧洲作战，我已经说过一百次了。但如果欧洲突然想要开战，我们现在就准备好了，”普京说。
普京表示，如果考虑到当地的现实，俄罗斯将允许欧洲重返乌克兰问题谈判。
会前，白宫表示“非常乐观”，因为美国官员继续推动结束俄罗斯对乌克兰的战争。
此次坐下来之前，美国和乌克兰高级官员举行了一系列会议，其间各方寻求修改特朗普政府上个月向乌克兰提交的原始和平计划提案。
维特科夫和其他美国高级官员，包括库什纳和国务卿马尔科·卢比奥，周日在佛罗里达州会见了一个乌克兰代表团试图达成交易乌克兰和俄罗斯都可能接受结束战争。
“我认为政府感到非常乐观，”白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特周一在佛罗里达会议后告诉记者。“他们在佛罗里达与乌克兰人进行了非常好的会谈。现在，当然，特使维特科夫正在去俄罗斯的路上。"
参加佛罗里达会谈的乌克兰高级官员表示，会谈取得了进展，但他补充说，“一些问题仍需要进一步完善。”
克里姆林宫周一表示，维特科夫和普京的会晤定于周二举行。据俄罗斯官员称，普京最近几天准备与军事指挥官和前线地区的一名州长举行会议。
佩斯科夫周二在莫斯科对记者说:“我们毫不怀疑，这将是朝着和平与和平解决迈出的非常重要的一步。”。
有过小期待普京会同意交易。这位俄罗斯领导人上周暗示，他不会妥协，并在强硬言论中重复了他的要求，即乌克兰从他声称是俄罗斯领土的领土上撤出，并表示与泽连斯基谈判“毫无意义”。
普京随后在周一声称没有证据俄罗斯军队已经控制了乌克兰东部的两座城市，那里的激烈战斗已经持续了数周，此举或许意在强化俄罗斯在战场上的领先地位。
泽连斯基和川普没有直接参与佛罗里达州的会谈，但他周一在巴黎会见了法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙。他在社交媒体上说，在法国举行的会议“具有实质性和重要性——最重要的是，集中讨论了实现公正和平的步骤”。泽连斯基于周二抵达都柏林，预计他将在都柏林会见爱尔兰总理迈克尔·马丁。
当泽连斯基推动欧洲团结一致反对俄罗斯侵略时，他在佛罗里达州的代表团成员正在发送关于正在讨论的事情的最新消息。他周一表示，谈判中仍有几个“棘手的问题”需要解决，但没有详细说明。乌克兰向俄罗斯割让部分领土的可能性被认为是谈判的一部分。
泽连斯基周一还表示，他、马克龙和英国首相凯尔·斯塔默再次听取了维特科夫和基辅代表团团长、乌克兰国家安全和国防委员会秘书鲁斯泰姆·乌梅罗夫的简报。
“在美国非常富有成效的两天里，我们举行了许多小时的会议和谈判，”乌梅罗夫周一在另一个社交媒体更新中说。"我们取得了重大进展，尽管有些问题仍需要进一步完善."
乌梅罗夫和谈判小组的其他成员周二亲自会见了泽连斯基，总统说，他们讨论了“不能通过电话解决的问题”他赞扬了乌克兰盟友的伙伴关系。他还指责俄罗斯在普京会见维特科夫之前开始新的造谣活动。
泽连斯基说:“乌克兰以最严肃的态度对待所有外交努力，我们致力于实现真正的和平和有保障的安全。”说在社交媒体上。“这正是俄罗斯方面必须做出的承诺水平，这项任务只有与我们的伙伴一起才能完成。”
在莫斯科举行的会议将是今年维特科夫和普京的第六次会谈，正值白宫加倍努力，以在近4年的冲突中达成和平协议。
周日的会议讨论了修改后的19点和平计划被开发出来一周前再来一轮美国和乌克兰的谈判在瑞士日内瓦。这些会谈修改了特朗普政府早些时候提出的28点计划，该计划让基辅和欧洲盟友感到震惊，因为它们严重偏袒俄罗斯。截至周二上午，有关周末是否会进行进一步修改的细节尚未公布。
莱维特周一在白宫发表讲话时，没有详细说明美国预计在莫斯科谈判期间会发生什么，而是听从了与会者的意见。
“我们已经把要点写在纸上。这些要点已经非常精炼了，”她说。“但至于细节，我会让谈判者协商。但我们确实感觉很好，我们希望这项工作能够最终结束。”
Kremlin calls talks with Witkoff 'useful' but says no compromise on Ukraine found
LONDON -- The Kremlin's top foreign policy aide called Tuesday's talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff "useful" but said "no compromise plan" has been found yet following the hourslong meeting in Moscow.
"There is still a lot of work to be done," the aide, Yury Ushakov, told reporters following the meeting.
According to Ushakov, who attended the meeting along with President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Putin told the Americans that Russia could agree with some parts of the U.S. plan but disagreed with others.
"The president did not hide our critical and even negative attitude towards a number of proposals," Ushakov said.
Russia expressed a readiness to keep negotiating, with Ushakov calling territorial issues the "most important issue." Ushakov said that no meeting was currently planned between Putin and Trump, and that such a meeting would depend on progress on reaching a peace settlement.
Putin's meeting with Witkoff ended after midnight local time on Wednesday, lasting about five hours, according to Russian state media.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the meeting had no time limit and would go on for "as long as necessary."
Ukraine "will be waiting for signals from the American delegation after its meetings in Russia," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X earlier Tuesday, while the discussions with Witkoff and Putin were still ongoing.
"The U.S. delegation intends to brief us directly immediately after those meetings. The next steps will depend on those signals," Zelenskyy said, adding that he is "ready for a meeting" with Trump.
A Ukrainian source with knowledge of the talks told ABC News that the Ukrainian side had expected Putin to say, "Yes, but..." and that "that is exactly what happened."
"Now the question is what exactly the 'but' is, and how the Americans will respond," the source added.
Prior to the meeting, Putin warned that Russia is ready to fight a war if Europe seeks one and claimed European countries are trying to make changes in Trump's proposal on ending Russia's war against Ukraine.
"We can clearly see that these changes are aimed at only one thing: to block the entire peace process," Putin said in remarks to reporters on Tuesday while accusing Europe of being "on the side of war."
"We are not going to fight Europe, I have said this a hundred times. But if Europe suddenly wants to fight and starts, we are ready right now," Putin said.
Russia would allow Europe to return to negotiations on Ukraine if it takes into account the realities on the ground, Putin said.
Ahead of the meeting, the White House said it was "very optimistic," as U.S. officials continue their push to end Russia's war against Ukraine.
The sit-down follows a series of meetings between top U.S. and Ukrainian officials, during which the parties sought to revise the original peace-plan proposal presented by the Trump administration to Ukraine last month.
Witkoff and other top U.S. officials -- including Kushner and Secretary of State Marco Rubio -- met on Sunday in Florida with a Ukrainian delegationto attempt to find a dealthat Ukraine and Russia might both accept to end the war.
"I think the administration feels very optimistic," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday, following the Florida meeting. "They had very good talks with the Ukrainians in Florida. And now, of course, Special EnvoyWitkoffis on his way to Russia."
The top Ukrainian official at the Florida talks said there had been progress, but, he added, "some issues still require further refinement."
The Kremlin on Monday said a meeting between Witkoff and Putin was scheduled for Tuesday. Putin prepared in recent days by holding meetings with military commanders and a governor of a frontline territory, according to Russian officials.
"We have no doubt that this will be a very important step towards peace and a peaceful settlement," Peskov told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday.
There waslittle expectationPutin would agree to a deal. The Russian leader signaled last week he would not compromise, repeating in hardline remarks his demand that Ukraine withdraw from territory he claims as Russian soil and saying it was "pointless" to negotiate with Zelenskyy.
Putin then on Mondayclaimed without evidencethat Russian forces had taken control of two Ukrainian cities where intense fighting has been happening for weeks in the eastern part of the country, a move intended perhaps to burnish the perception of Russia's leading position on the battlefield.
Zelenskyy, who, along with Trump, was not directly involved with the talks in Florida, met on Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. The meetings in France were "substantive and important -- above all, focused on the steps that bring a just peace closer," he said on social media. Zelenskyy landed on Tuesday in Dublin, where he's expected to meet with Taoiseach Micheal Martin, the Irish prime minister.
As Zelenskyy pushed for European unity against Russian aggression, members of his delegation in Florida were sending updates on what was being discussed. He said on Monday that there were still several "tough issues" to work through in the negotiations, but did not elaborate. Ukraine's potential relinquishment of some of its territory to Russia was thought to be part of the talks.
Zelenskyy on Monday also said he, Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had again been briefed by Witkoff and the head of the Kyiv delegation, Rustem Umerov, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.
"Over two very productive days in the United States, we held many hours of meetings and negotiations," Umerov said in a separate social media update on Monday. "We achieved significant progress, although some issues still require further refinement."
Umerov and the rest of the negotiating team met with Zelenskyy in person on Tuesday, with the president saying they discussed "the matters that cannot be addressed over the phone." He praised Ukrainian allies for their partnership. And he also accused Russia of beginning new disinformation campaigns prior to Putin's meeting with Witkoff.
"Ukraine approaches all diplomatic efforts with utmost seriousness -- we are committed to achieving a real peace and guaranteed security," Zelenskyysaidon social media. "This is exactly the level of commitment that must be compelled from the Russian side, and this task can be accomplished only together with our partners."
The meeting in Moscow would be the sixth such Witkoff-Putin sit-down this year and it comes amid a redoubled effort by the White House to produce a peace deal in the almost 4-year-old conflict.
The meeting on Sunday included discussions of a revised 19-point peace plan thatwas developeda week ago duringanother roundof American-Ukrainian talksin Geneva, Switzerland. Those talks reworked an earlier 28-point plan that the Trump administration had presented and that had alarmed Kyiv and European allies as heavily favoring Russia. Details about whether further revisions may have been made over the weekend had not been released as of Tuesday morning.
Speaking at the White House on Monday, Leavitt did not detail what the U.S. expected to happen during the negotiations in Moscow, instead deferring to those who would be at the meeting.
"We've put points on paper. Those points have been very much refined," she said. "But as for the details, I will let the negotiators negotiate. But we do feel quite good, and we're hopeful that this work can finally come to an end."
