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Kathmandu. After European countries are ready to send troops to Ukrainian soil to fight Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russian and American teams are holding talks in Saudi Arabia to stop the Russia-Ukraine war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “Putin is ready to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky if necessary. Putin himself has said this.” After only representatives of the two countries sat in the talks in Saudi Arabia, European countries, China and Ukraine have expressed their disagreement.
In an emergency security meeting in Germany, the leaders of Britain, France, Poland and Germany have said that they will station their troops on Ukrainian soil if necessary. Ukraine has also said it will reject talks without its participation. However, Ukrainian President Zelensky will decide whether to prepare for war without American support, with the help of European countries.
After Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he has been making new decisions that will change the balance of world power. Just a few days ago, he said that the United States should return all the money it gave to Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump has suggested that Kiev should give up natural resources worth $500 billion.
The global power balance may change
With the rise of Trump in America, a change in the global power balance is about to occur. After World War II, the United States, European countries, India, Ukraine, Israel, Japan, and South Korea were one power. Similarly, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea were in the same power balance.
Now, it is being speculated that the power balance itself will change. President Trump has started a trade war against China by bringing Russia closer. China has demanded the participation of all parties in the Russia-US peace talks. This means that if the US leaves the European-Ukraine power balance, a new power balance including China will emerge. If the US leaves the NATO alliance, Russia will become a balance of India, Israel, and the US. Then, along with European countries, China, Iran, and Ukraine will become a new power balance.
Moscow expects progress in economic talks with the US
Russia expects to make ‘progress’ in economic talks with the US in the coming months, a Russian negotiator said in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Top officials from both countries are meeting in Saudi Arabia and the Kremlin hopes the talks will ‘restore’ relations. Moscow has been growing increasingly hopeful that Washington will lift sanctions imposed over the Ukraine invasion after US President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin last week and after US officials gave speeches signaling a shift in policy toward Russia. “We have a very important path forward on the economy,” Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Moscow’s economic negotiator for the talks, told state television. “We have a series of proposals that our colleagues are thinking about and I think that in the next two to three months, there will be progress, probably not so far in the future.” He did not say specifically what those proposals were or when any future talks on the economy would take place.
Dmitriev, who studied in the United States and previously worked at Goldman Sachs, is a key negotiator for the Kremlin. The West, led by the US, imposed sanctions on Russia in 2022 after it sent troops to Ukraine. Moscow has massively increased spending on its military over the past three years. This has helped Russia avoid recession but has led to high inflation and imbalances at home.
Experts say such high spending on the military and weapons is unsustainable in the long term. But Dmitriev reiterated the Kremlin’s claim that the West is the main victim of its own sanctions policy. “It is important to start a conversation and say that the sanctions affect American companies more than Russia,” he said.
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