Moscow said he is waiting for Washington to contact them to coordinate a telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American president Donald Trump. Putin said he is willing to talk with Trump.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is willing to maintain a telephone conversation with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and Moscow is waiting for Washington to communicate that he is also prepared, Kremlin spokesman said on Friday Peskov.
Trump said Thursday that he wanted to meet with Putin As soon as possible to ensure the end of the war with Ukraine and expressed his desire to work to reduce nuclear weapons, something that, according to Kremlin, Putin had made it clear that he also wanted.
When asked if Putin and Trump would take advantage of this weekend to maintain their first phone call from Trump's possession – a essential precursor before a face -to -face meeting to hold deeper conversations – Peskov said: “Putin is prepared We are waiting for signs (from Washington).
Trump, who went to the Davos World Economic Forum by Videoconferencia on Thursday, said he wanted to work to reduce nuclear weapons and added that he thought Russia and China could support the reduction of their own arms capabilities.
“We would like to see denuclearization (…) and I will tell you that President Putin liked the idea of reducing nuclear weapons. And I think the rest of the world would have followed us and China too,” Trump said.
Peskov said that Putin had made it clear that he wanted to resume nuclear disarmament negotiations as soon as possible, but said that these conversations would have to be broader than in the past to cover the nuclear arsenals of other countries, including those of France and the United Kingdom.
“So there is something to talk about, we have to talk. Time has been lost in many ways. We have already spoken before that interest, so the ball is on the roof of the United States, which has interrupted all substantive contacts With our country, “said Peskov.
The new strategic weapons reduction treaty, or new start, which limits the number of strategic nuclear heads that can display the United States and Russia, as well as the deployment of land and submarine missiles and bomber to launch them, expires on February 5, 2026 .
It is the last pillar that remains of the control of nuclear weapons between the two largest nuclear powers in the world.
Oil prices
When commenting Trump's request in Davos to OPEC and Saudi Arabia to lower the price of oil and the idea that lower prices could accelerate the end of the Ukraine War, Peskov said:
“This conflict does not depend on oil prices. This conflict is produced by the threat to the national security of the Russian Federation, due to the threat to the Russians living in well -known territories and for the total negative of Americans and Europeans to listen to Russia's concerns has nothing to do with oil prices. “
By “well -known territories”, Peskov referred to parts of eastern Ukraine that Russia has captured since the beginning of the war and claimed as theirs, in actions that most countries in the United Nations have condemned as illegal.
Peskov also disagreed with Trump's statement that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was willing to reach a peace agreement, noting that Zelenskyy had ruled out, in a decree of 2022, any negotiation with Putin.
“To reach an agreement it is necessary to celebrate negotiations. (But) Zelenskyy has prohibited himself from carrying them out in their own decree.”
Zelenskyy said this week that at least 200,000 European peace maintenance soldiers would be needed to prevent a new Russian attack against Ukraine after any high -fire agreement.