Why this score Putin's foreign-policy aide and the Kremlin's usual narrator of leader-level calls. Authoritative as to what the Kremlin wishes to say was said; an interested party whose accounts of negotiations are one-sided and are not matched against a counterpart readout. Recorded as Russia's stated position, never as a neutral account, and must not steer a summary unattributed.
Our President informed Steve Witkoff that, in principle, Russia is ready to resume the trilateral talks around the 10th of November to discuss the main issue. This concerns the establishment of a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the end of the conflict.
Unverified: the window has not closed. “Around the 10th of November” is read charitably as a session convening by 30 November (Kremlin readout).
Vladimir Putin gave Steve Witkoff an “objective picture” of the front, in which Russian forces hold “complete strategic initiative” and are conducting a relentless offensive in all key areas.
False. ISW measures a net Russian loss of about 73 km² across the front since September 1, and assesses that Ukrainian counteroffensives have let Ukraine contest the initiative across the front, virtually halting Russian advances.
By launching a massive drone attack on Moscow, other cities and polling stations, as well as on specific individuals involved in organizing the election, on the main voting day, the Kyiv regime effectively disrupted the possibility of an immediate resumption of the negotiation process. … And now, as the president said, we will consider when those negotiations can be resumed.
The Kremlin’s account of what Putin told Trump on October 9: that Moscow had been ready to resume talks after September’s elections. The Kremlin had also said on September 23, three days after the attack, that conditions for talks were not ready. Al Jazeera carries a slightly different translation.