{"id":40064,"date":"2025-12-04T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/putin-blocks-peace-talks-involving-us-representatives-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:31:58","slug":"putin-blocks-peace-talks-involving-us-representatives-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/putin-blocks-peace-talks-involving-us-representatives-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin blocks peace talks involving US representatives &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations to end the Russian-Ukrainian war involving US representatives have hit a snag due to Vladimir Putin&#039;s stance. The Russian dictator has effectively rejected the agreement and is also unwilling to see US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2F1763905922-2322-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Putin blocks peace talks involving US representatives - The Guardian\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Negotiations on ending the Russian-Ukrainian war, involving US representatives, have hit a major roadblock \u2013 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. This is reported by UNN with reference to The Guardian.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Putin&#039;s rejection of any deal this week was widely anticipated. Russian political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya stated that the meeting &quot;was never a negotiation. It was a deliberate, unambiguous presentation of Russia&#039;s preconditions for Ukraine&#039;s de facto surrender. Putin is now waiting to see if this direct message changes Trump&#039;s position on ending the war.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Thomas Graham, a former high-ranking US official who maintains contacts with current and former Russian officials, believes that the Kremlin&#039;s agreement to discuss the proposal could signify progress.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Russian dictator Putin does not want US President&#039;s special envoy Steve Witkoff, who has no diplomatic experience or education, to come to Moscow for these negotiations, the publication states.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio believes that the decision to end the war on the Russian side is made exclusively by Putin, and not by his entourage and advisors.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, December 2, US President Donald Trump&#039;s special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President&#039;s son-in-law Jared Kushner arrived at the Kremlin for a meeting with Kremlin head Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Later, representatives of the American delegation arranged a dinner before the meeting with Putin. According to Russian media, the US representatives were taken to a Michelin-starred restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Media reported that Witkoff and Trump&#039;s son-in-law Jared Kushner, after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, would go to negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations to end the Russian-Ukrainian war involving US representatives have hit a snag due to Vladimir Putin&#039;s stance. The Russian dictator has effectively rejected the agreement and is also unwilling to see US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow. Negotiations on ending the Russian-Ukrainian war, involving US representatives, have hit a major roadblock \u2013 Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}