As the administration begins with preliminary talks with Russian officials in Ukraine, Intelligence from the United States shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to control the entire Ukraine, according to the four American Congress Official Official Officials.
“We have a zero intelligence that Putin is currently interested in real peacekeeping banking,” said one of Congress officials.
Putin sends representatives of Saudi Arabia for negotiations on Tuesday with the USA focused on the end of the war. But six officials were told, the current intelligence shows Putin still believes he can wait for Ukraine and Europe to finally control the entire Ukraine.
“He thinks he wins,” he said one of the Western intelligence officers, adding that Russian battlefield losses do not put pressure on the path to stop fighting.
All officials spoke about the state of anonymity for discussion on intelligence.
Brian Hughes, the Spokesperson of the National Security Council, “President Trump Management created the first opening for talks for years, and that is only four weeks in the office. Trump administration will continue to carry out a contract that progresses to American interests and brings this conflict in permanent resolution. “
President Donald Trump said that Putin told him in a telephone conversation last Wednesday that he wanted to finish the war in Ukraine, and Trump reiterated this from the comments to journalists on Sunday.
“I think he wants to stop fighting,” Trump said. He asked if he thought Putin wants to want all Ukraine, said Trump, “No, I think he wants to stop.”
“It was his question for him, because if he would continue, it would be a big problem for us, and that would cause me a big problem because you just can’t let that happen,” Trump said. “I think he wants to finish. And they want him to end quickly.”
Trump said that Ukrainian President Volodyyr Zelensky also said when they spoke last Wednesday that he wanted a peace treaty to end the war.
With his telephone calls to Putin and Zelensky, Trump, who promised during the campaign to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of investment, the negotiation process that had intended to stop the war. The effort coincided with his administration by providing release from Russia’s American Marko Fogel teacher, who named us as unfairly closed.
Trump’s envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, flew on his private plane to Moscow to take over Fogel, and Trump told reporters on Sunday that he was there, he met with a path for about three hours. The Management Board did not share further details about that meeting.
WITKOFF is now part of the Trump’s negotiating team last week, together with the State Secretary of Marco Rubio, CIA directors John Ratcliffe and the National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. Rubio, Witkoff and Waltz met with the Russian team on the Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Six officials said they believe that Putin could agree to a truce and a broader peace treaty because he would give him reset and renovation.
They said that among us and Western officials there are skepticism that the paths will eventually compromise and agree to the actual, permanent peace offer. There is a belief, however, that he could go through the suggestions of negotiations to see which concessions might be given and try again to be again neglected to the world phase, where it has largely avoided the Russian invasion of Ukraine three years ago.
Putin does not make any plans for drawing their troops in Ukraine or withdraw some formation or equipment from Western Russia, intelligence officers said.
Six officials also said that Putin strengthens the recent comments of the Trump Administration officials that now do not see NATO membership for Ukraine as a realistic outcome of negotiating settlement.
“His goals remain maximumistically,” one Western intelligence officers said.
American intelligence assessments of Putin’s opinions were very limited, American officials said.
But the American intelligence and intelligence received from other countries have consistently showed that Putin maintains wide ambitions for Ukraine, American officials said. Congress officials and one former Senior Administration Officer said that it remained in the end of the biden administration as it crossed the Trump administration and has not changed in the month since Trump took over the function.
The Ukrainian government is concerned about the omission of negotiations and that Russia will come to a table that does not want to compromise maximal requirements, according to the applicable and former US officials.
In an exclusive interview with NBC news “” Meet the press “broadcast on Sunday, Zelskyy said Kristen Welker,” I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine, never. ”
“This is a war in Ukraine, against us, and they are our human losses.”
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