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U.S. President Donald Trump together with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. FIle | Photo Credit: Reuters
“I’m going to need to know that we’re going to make a deal. I’m not going to be losing my time,” Mr. Trump instructed reporters aboard Air Force One as he headed to Asia, days after plans for a summit with Mr. Putin in Budapest collapsed.
“I’ve all the time had an important relationship with Vladimir Putin, however this has been very disappointing,” Mr. Trump mentioned. “I assumed this might have gotten completed earlier than peace within the Middle East.”
The President’s feedback got here as Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev met with Trump administration officers Friday (October 24, 2025) and Saturday (October 25, 2025), a Russian supply acquainted with the talks instructed AFP. Talks had been anticipated to proceed on Sunday (October 26, 2025).
Mr. Dmitriev met on Saturday (Octoer 25, 2025) in Florida with Mr. Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff, U.S. media reported.
Mr. Dmitriev instructed CNN in an interview on Friday (October 24, 2025) a diplomatic answer to the battle in Ukraine was inside attain, after Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned he backed Trump’s proposal to make the present frontline the premise for negotiations with Russia.
“I consider Russia and the US and Ukraine truly fairly near a diplomatic answer,” Mr. Dmitriev instructed CNN.
“It’s an enormous transfer by President Zelenskyy to already acknowledge that it’s about battle traces. You know, his earlier place was that Russia ought to depart utterly so truly, I feel we’re moderately near a diplomatic answer that may be labored out.”
His go to to the United States got here after Washington slapped sanctions Wednesday on Russia’s two largest oil corporations.
Mr. Trump had held off pulling the set off on sanctions in opposition to Russia for months, however his endurance snapped after plans for the contemporary summit with Mr. Putin in Budapest collapsed, following failed talks in Alaska in August.
The Republican billionaire has nevertheless mentioned he hopes that the sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil are short-lived and that the “battle shall be settled.”
Mr. Putin admitted the sanctions had been “severe” however insisted they weren’t sufficient to considerably harm the Russian financial system.
He added that the sanctions had been an “unfriendly act” that “doesn’t strengthen Russia-U.S. relations, which have solely simply begun to get well.”
But the Russian chief mentioned he remained open to dialogue with Mr. Trump, and Mr. Dmitriev mentioned on Friday (October 24, 2025) the assembly between the 2 leaders “will occur, however in all probability at a later date.”
Mr. Zelenskyy known as the U.S. sanctions “a powerful and much-needed message that aggression won’t go unanswered.”
The European Union levied robust sanctions on the Russian oil and fuel sector in parallel to the U.S. measures.
Published – October 26, 2025 07:51 am IST
