Trump meets Putin, calling for Russia to “move” in the Ukrainian ceasefire.

Steve Witkoff in the United States met Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Friday. Donald Trump said the Russian president “moved” in the Ukrainian ceasefire.

Kremlin said the meeting lasted more than four hours and focused on “side of the Ukrainian settlement.” This year’s third meeting with Putin was described as “productivity” by the envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

Trump expressed frustration with Putin. On Friday, he wrote on social media:

Keith Kellogg, a special envoy to Ukraine, suggested that the country could be divided.

The Times said in an interview with the newspaper that Kellogg suggested that the British and French troops could adopt control zones. As part of “guarantee” in the western Ukrainian.

He suggested that the Russian army could remain on the east of occupied. “It can be almost visible like what happened in Berlin after World War II,” he quoted him.

Kellogg later visited social media and said the article said “wrongly.” “I was talking about the aftermath of Ukraine’s sovereignty,” X added: “I didn’t mention Ukraine’s division,” he added.

The White House or KYIV did not immediately respond to opinions. The BBC asked Times for a response.

Early Friday, European countries agreed to 21 billion euros ($ 24 billion; £ 18 billion). KYIV’s military aid.

At the event, European defense ministers said they did not see signs of the war.

A spokesman for Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, said, “There is no need to expect a breakthrough because the process of normalizing the relationship is in progress before the conversation of Putin-Witkoff.”

Peskov asked for a discussion if Putin and Trump could include a date. Peskov said.

In advance, Witkoff had a meeting with DMITRIV in Europe, a Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg, where meetings on stainless steel and Russian markets were held.

Dmitriev, head of the 49 -year -old Russian Sovereign Asset Fund, visited Washington last week and was the most high -ranking Russian civil servant to the United States since the full invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Meanwhile, President Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zelensky accused the Kremlin that on Friday, April 4 that the Russian missile attack extended his hometown, Kryvyi Rih. This attack was killed by 19 people, including nine children.

He also insisted that hundreds of Chinese were fighting Russian troops. Ukraine comes after saying that he has arrested two Chinese.

Zelensky said, “We have information that at least hundreds of Chinese are fighting as part of the Russian occupation.”

“This means that Russia is trying to extend war using Chinese lives.”

Zelensky sprinkled flowers in front of the photos of Herman Tripolets, 9, 7 -year -old Arina Samodina and Radyslav Yatsko.

He later repeated the demand for aviation defense systems “to protect life and our cities.”

“We discussed this with President Trump -Ukraine is not simply asking, but is ready to buy this additional system,” he wrote on social media.

“When there is a neighbor like Russia, only powerful weapons can truly depend on protecting life.”

Trump previously claimed that he could end the Ukrainian-Russian conflict in “24 hours”. On Friday, he declared that Russia would not have occurred at all when he was in the White House in 2022 when Russia began full -scale invasion.

“The war that LD (SIC) did not necessarily occur has never happened, and I would not have happened if I was president,” he wrote.

February US and Russian officials I met in Saudi Arabia For the first conversation after the invasion. Officials have also met to discuss the restoration of diplomatic relations.

Trump also had A Amazing relationship with Zelensky Since his second term as a US president, he began an angry confrontation at the elliptical office in February.

The United States attempted to broker a limited ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea, and only stopped when the Kremlin started to invade a neighbor.

Trump, along with President Putin, said, “I’m very angry,” he said, with President Putin that he lacks progress to the ceasefire between Kib and Moscow.

Andrei Kelin, the Russian ambassador in the UK, is the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg The United States is not an alliance.

He said that after Trump returned to the White House, the United States and Russia could not go “in two months to mediation in two months.”

“We have too many disagreements,” he said. “But we are working step by step in other areas.”

Earlier this week, Washington and Moscow Prisoner.

Russian American KSENIA KARELINA was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Russia, which donated $ 51 to Ukrainian charity when the war began in February 2022.

Residents of Los Angeles were liberated on Thursday morning and exchanged with Arthur Petrov, a German-Russian citizen who was arrested in Cyprus in 2023.

He was accused of illegally exporting microcrines to Russia for manufacturers working with the army.