“If Europe starts a conflict, we are prepared”

While the special envoy of Donald Trump, Steve Witkoffand his son-in-law, Jared Kushnerspent time this Tuesday touring the center of Moscow, in the company of Kirill Dmitrievexecutive director of the Russian sovereign wealth fund and close ally of Vladimir Putinthe Russian president — who had summoned them to the Kremlin around 3:00 p.m. in mainland Spain, that is, a couple of hours before — appeared before the press after speaking at the investment forum Russia is calling! to accuse European countries of having adopted “the thesis of inflicting strategic defeat on Russia,” an “illusion” that, he says, “they still keep alive.”

“They don’t have a peace agenda.” [sobre Ucrania]. They are on the side of war,” he insisted. Putin also reiterated that Russia “has no intention of going to war with European countries,” but made it clear that “if Europe starts a conflict, we are prepared.” In this scenario, Moscow will soon “have no one to negotiate with,” he stressed.

The Russian president accused European leaders of sabotaging with proposals “absolutely unacceptable” to Moscow a peace agreement for Ukraine that he has been negotiating for weeks with Witkoff, a New York real estate investor turned Trump’s special envoy to resolve the conflict.

Witkoff is the figure in the US Administration closest to the interests of the Kremlin. So much so that he advised Yuri Ushakov, one of Putin’s court advisors, on the most effective way to gain Trump’s trust. Last March, Witkoff himself stated in an interview with the ultraconservative commentator Tucker Carlson that he did not consider the Russian president to be “a bad person,” and that he also showed a genuine interest in negotiating a resolution to the conflict with Trump.

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