Putin: Russia is ready to continue discussions with the United States on the issue of Ukraine

Russian President Putin said in an interview with the national television that the Kremlin hopes US negotiators Witkov and Kushner will come to Moscow to continue negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine.

Bloomberg reported that Putin said in an interview released on Sunday (June 28th): "We expect that once all the issues are settled and the active phase of the Iranian issue is over, we will welcome those representatives of the US government who we have met with many times in Moscow."

He said: "We are prepared to continue the negotiations and are willing to do so. We will discuss all the details - even if no agreement can be reached, at least we will discuss the same issues that were discussed in Anchorage."

The Anchorage meeting refers to the Russia-US summit held by US President Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Alaska on August 15th last year.

Putin added that Moscow had received new proposals to limit the fighting in Ukraine: one proposal was to cease conducting long-range strikes on deep targets within both Ukraine and Russia, and the other was to confine the fighting to the four occupied regions of Ukraine.

Putin said that he had rejected these proposals because confining the fighting to these four regions would enable the Ukrainian army to deploy troops from other fronts.

The White House has not commented on this yet.

Previously, Trump said at the G7 summit held in France that Russia should "reach an agreement with Ukraine".

On June 24th, Trump claimed that Ukrainian President Zelensky performed well in the war against Russia, while previously he had said that Zelensky lacked the "resources" needed to win.