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Russian President Vladimir Putin has through his foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, confirmed that Russia is willing is to work with Donald Trump’s incoming administration to improve relations with the U.S.
According to the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ,Russia has serious intentions to do so but it is up to Washington to make the first move.
Trump, who will return as U.S. president on Jan. 20, styles himself as a master dealmaker and has vowed to swiftly end the war in Ukraine but not set out how he might achieve that beyond getting President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to agree to end the fighting.
President-elect Trump says it’s good for the United States to get along with Vladimir Putin and vows to restore relations with Russia.
Trump, who will return as U.S. president on Jan. 20, styles himself as a master dealmaker and has vowed to swiftly end the war in Ukraine but not set out how he might achieve that beyond getting President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to agree to end the fighting.
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Trump’s appointed envoy to Ukraine, retired Lieutenant-General Keith Kellogg, on December 18 that both parties were prepared for peace talks and that Trump was ideally positioned to negotiate a deal to end the conflict.
“If the signals from the new team in Washington indicate a genuine desire to restore the dialogue that was interrupted after the start of the special military operation (the war in Ukraine), we will certainly respond,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
“However, since the Americans broke off the dialogue, they need to make the first move,” Lavrov, who has served as Putin’s foreign minister for over 20 years, added.
