Vladimir Putin will take part in peace talks after November 10,the Kremlin said
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Vladimir Putin has agreed to reenter negotiations with Washington and Kyiv in a view to ending the war in Ukraine.
The Russian president has agreed ‘in principle’ to resume the talks after November 10,Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said.
The talks will focus on ‘building a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the conflict ends,’ Ushakov said.
Negotiations with Putin about Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine came as Donald Trump also pushes Kyiv to make a deal that stops the fighting.
As the talks began,Putin thanked Trump and his envoy Steve Witkoff for their efforts to end the war.
Witcoff was seen telling Putin he was a humanitarian just like his boss Trump.
People watch the burning oil terminal following an air attack in Saint Petersburg amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. (Picture: AFP)The discussion lasted about three hours,the Kremlin said.Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said that freezing the conflict in Ukraine was the ‘minimum required from Russia to end the war.‘Right now,we have to freeze,and I think this is (the) real way to end this war,’ Zelensky told Fox News.The UN has verified more than 73,450 civilian casualties (killed and injured) in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022.
A hypermarket was destroyed in a Russian strike overnight (Picture: Facebook)Russian forces attacked Uman with strike drones overnight on October 21. A private house,a hypermarket and a hotel were damaged. During the day,Russian forces struck the city twice more,damaging a university dormitory and private houses. Five people were injured in total.Despite an ‘energy ceasefire’ Russian strikes continued to hit Kyiv’s main power infrastructure,causing temporary outages affecting about 600,000 people.A major Russian attack caused heavy civilian casualties in Zaporizhzhia,one of several mass-casualty incidents on October 14.
