Posted on 04/13/2025 6:54:48 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S. President Donald Trump's team were moving ahead very well but that it was too early to expect instant results due to the level of damage done to relations under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden.
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After his special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin, Trump said on Saturday discussions aimed at ending the war may be going OK, but "there’s a point at which you just have to either put up or shut up".
"Everything is going very well," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state television's most prominent Kremlin reporter, Pavel Zarubin, when asked about the differing views of the state of relations between Moscow and Washington.
Contacts were underway at several levels, Peskov said, including via the foreign ministry, intelligence agencies and Putin's investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
"But, of course, it is impossible to expect any instant results," Peskov said, citing what he called the damage done to bilateral relations under Biden.
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Asked if a Putin-Trump meeting was getting nearer, the Kremlin's Peskov said the two powers were "walking along this path together very patiently" but that trying to restore relations took serious and painstaking work.
His words suggested that such a meeting "requires more work, requires more time".
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Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
Attacking on the holy day of Palm Sunday?! Dear God.
https://x.com/RichardGrenell/status/1911421374561665179
How much do you get paid per post, you spamming azzhole?
An excellent peace plan:
1. Eastern Ukraine, aligned with Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine
2. Western Ukraine, aligned with Kiev
“marcus is a spammimg clown.”
I don’t want to say it’s spamming clowns, but....
The smiling Ukrainian man has been press-ganged to the front and shot.
Couldn’t you at least photoshop the words in English? Unlike you, very few of us are from Ukraine and don’t know what they mean.
The smiling Ukrainian woman is putting out for Banderite press-gangs while her husband is at the front.
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