Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says as peace talks with US begin

Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says as peace talks with US begin


Russian president accuses European powers of preventing peace in Ukraine as he meets with Witkoff and Kushner

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Vladimir Putin has accused European powers of preventing peace in Ukraine and threatened that Russia was ready for war as Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, arrived for talks at the Kremlin on Tuesday evening.

Moments before the closed-door meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, Putin made a series of hard-edged remarks. Speaking to reporters, he accused European governments of sabotaging the peace process and said that “European demands” on ending the war in Ukraine were “not acceptable to Russia”.

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