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🇷🇺🎙️President Vladimir Putin’s Answers to Media Questions Following the State Visit to Kyrgyzstan and the CSTO Summit
Bishkek, 27 November 2025
The President of Russia commented on the outcome of discussions held in Bishkek, addressing the current negotiation track with the United States, the military situation in Ukraine, and broader international issues.
🔹On the draft “peace treaty”
The President underlined that there was no draft treaty as such – only a set of issues proposed for discussion and subsequent formalisation. Prior to his visit to the United States, including the trip to Alaska, these matters were examined with American negotiators. It was in the course of those consultations that a detailed list of potential understandings was shaped and later passed to Russia through established channels, after which it was carefully reviewed.
🔹On the negotiation process
President emphasized that it is necessary to sit down and discuss specific elements seriously, translating all positions into diplomatic language.
Russia has never planned and does not intend to “attack Europe” – “this sounds ridiculous to us” – but if partners want this formalized in writing, Russia is ready to do so.
The President confirmed that Russia is fully prepared for substantive discussion. An American delegation is expected to arrive in Moscow next week.
Russian negotiators are led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From the Presidential Administration, Aide to the President Vladimir Medinsky continues to oversee the process from the outset, while Aide Yury Ushakov has also been instructed to coordinate the ongoing work and maintain contact with U.S. counterparts.
🔹On the situation in Ukraine
Ukrainian forces must withdraw from the territories they occupy – only then will hostilities cease. If they do not withdraw, Russia will achieve this militarily.
Across all sectors of the front, the President noted a positive dynamic. Moreover, the pace of advance by Russian forces is increasing significantly.
The main problem for the Ukrainian military, according to the President, is the growing gap between losses and the number of troops they are capable of sending to the line of contact. In October alone, Ukraine suffered 47,500 losses, while mobilization yielded only around 16,500, with a further 14,500–15,000 returning from hospitals. The monthly deficit is therefore around 15,000, following a deficit of 10,000 the previous month. This gap continues to widen.
High levels of desertion in the Ukrainian forces are reported not only by Russian sources but also by Western media, which the President stressed is impossible for Kiev’s partners to conceal.
🔹On the EU initiative for asset confiscation
Hungary, as an EU member state, is fully aware of the consequences. The Hungarian Prime Minister, the President noted, understands how such actions would affect the European currency. Any move to confiscate Russian assets will have serious negative consequences for the global financial system, sharply reducing trust in the eurozone. This comes at a time when the locomotive of the European economy – Germany – has been in recession for the third consecutive year.
🔹On the Ukrainian leadership and legitimacy
Signing documents with the current Ukrainian leadership is, in the President’s words, meaningless. He reiterated that Kiev committed a fundamental strategic mistake by refusing to hold presidential elections, leading to the loss of legitimacy.
Russia itself, despite being in an armed conflict, held presidential elections as well as municipal and regional elections – “we do all this, and they, for some reason, do not”.
Russia ultimately seeks to reach an agreement with Ukraine, but at present this is legally impossible. Whoever in Kiev is willing or able to negotiate may do so – but Russia needs its decisions to be recognized by the principal international actors.
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❗️Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement on the beginning of Russia’s CSTO Presidency
On January 1, 2026, Russia assumed the presidency of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO) and will hold it under the motto, Collective Security in a Multipolar World: Common Goal, Shared Responsibility.
Together with our CSTO allies, we are joining forces to uphold our common approaches to resolving international security issues.
The fundamental documents of the Organisation set forth the principles of peaceful co-existence of states, the priority of a political and diplomatic settlement, and compliance with the international law with the UN playing a leading role. This forms the foundation for working with our partners to forge mutually beneficial relations and to actively engage in shaping the contours of a future architecture of equal and indivisible security across the Eurasian space. The CSTO could become one of its pillars.
We would like the Eurasian states to take responsibility for resolving security issues and determine the future of the continent themselves, without any outside interference.
The Collective Security Treaty Organisation has emerged as a prominent and respected association of allied states, whose activities are not directed against anyone, do not contain any aggressive aspirations, and aim exclusively to maintain regional stability and ensure the wellbeing of its member states. Moreover, all decisions in the Organisation are made by consensus based on a balance of interests, and cooperation is based on the principles of respect for each other, good neighbourliness, genuine friendship and mutual support.
🤝Russia will ensure continuity in the development of main areas of cooperation, among other things, by continuing to work on implementing the initiatives of the presidency of the Kyrgyz Republic which has just finished.
In view of geopolitical tension, we will strive to further consolidate CSTO member states, strengthen allied ties, and deepen coordination on key international matters. We will continue our policy of expanding the CSTO’s network of contacts with the Eurasian states and their integration associations.
Our efforts will focus on effectively fulfilling the Organisation’s primary mission which consists of maintaining peace and stability in its area of responsibility, ensuring favourable conditions for safe development and prosperity of the CSTO member states. No one should have any doubts: we will not allow any chaos in our common home.
We attach great importance to the development of the enforcement dimension in the Organisation’s work. There are plans to focus on building up the capabilities of the Collective Forces of the CSTO, equipping them with up-to-date and compatible weapons and equipment. The work will be structured in accordance with the nature of current and potential challenges, taking into consideration the experience of present-day armed conflicts.
We will pay special attention to cooperation in protection against biological threats and information security. Ensuring technological leadership in the military sphere, developing military-industrial complexes of the CSTO countries and promoting their cooperation, and fulfilling the innovative potential will also be among our priorities.
We intend to use a wider range of tools for jointly countering international terrorism and extremism, money laundering and terrorist financing, as well as combating illicit drug and arms trafficking, transnational organised crime, and illegal migration.
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We are confident in the support of our partners in implementing the priorities of the Russian presidency, and ready to work closely together and productively in 2026.
I am convinced that through joint efforts we will bring cooperation within the CSTO to a new level to preserve and strengthen peace in the Organisation’s space.
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🗓On 5 April 2023 Vladimir Putin received letters of credence from 17 newly-appointed foreign ambassadors with Brunei🇧🇳 and Cambodia🇰🇭 among them.The ceremony was held in the St Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace
💬Vladimir #Putin: "The situation in the world is currently challenging, with many disagreements that may seem irreconcilable at times and often hinder normal productive cooperation between states.
🤝However, I would like to hope that the activity of your embassies will help to foster cooperation between our countries. You may rest assured that all of your initiatives and proposals that are in line with this endeavour will have the support of both Russian officials and our business and public circles.
🌐Russia is open to constructive partnership with all countries without exception. We do not intend to isolate ourselves nor do we have any prejudiced or hostile intentions towards anybody and expect that our partners will adhere to the principles of equality and mutual consideration of interests in their relations with Russia".
📰 Trump, Putin Hold ‘Positive Call’ on Ukraine—But What Does It Mean?
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a “positive call” Monday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, according to the White House. The conversation came just a day after Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago, where both sides claimed “a lot of progress”—but no breakthrough.
“A lot of progress,”
Trump said.
“It might take a few weeks to conclude. No set timeline.”
Trump’s optimism is familiar, but the details remain murky. Ukraine’s revised peace plan—now down to 20 points—is still missing key Russian demands, especially on territory and the size of Ukraine’s military. Moscow insists on maximalist territorial claims, while Zelensky wants a 50-year US security guarantee to deter future Russian aggression.
The Diplomatic Dance
Trump says a deal is “getting a lot closer,” but there’s no set timeline.
Zelensky says the plan is “90% agreed,” but Russia says some elements are non-negotiable.
Both leaders are playing the long game, promising progress while leaving the hard choices for later.
Is this “positive call” a step toward peace—or just another round of diplomatic theater?
#ukraine#russia#trump#putin#diplomacy#fakeDemocracy
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Over the past year two parallel sets of talks have been held about ending the war in Ukraine.
American-led negotiations with Russia have produced proposal after proposal but no agreement on territory or security guarantees. Meanwhile, other envoys from the Kremlin and the White House have been discussing business.
Volodymyr Zelensky, citing Ukrainian intelligence, says Russia has promised deals worth $12trn to America in return for sanctions relief; one insider reckons a package has already been agreed on. In Europe fears are rising that President Donald Trump could force Ukraine into crippling concessions by June—his latest deadline for peace—to chase gold in Russia.
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👂More on Trump's Ear ⚠️
President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin informed him in a Monday morning call of a Ukrainian drone attack allegedly targeting one of his residences, saying the move was “not good,” even as Kyiv immediately rejected the allegation.
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Abu Dhabi: Does Trump Really Intend to Wrap Up the War?
Ukraine, Russia and the US are set to hold three-way talks in Abu Dhabi on Friday, marking the first time that the three countries have sat down together since the start of the war in 2022.
The meeting was confirmed in the early hours of Friday morning after talks at the Kremlin between Putin, Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Kremlin diplomatic adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters those talks were “useful in every respect”, adding that it was “agreed that the first meeting of a trilateral working group on security issues will take place today in Abu Dhabi”.
The full details of the talks in the United Arab Emirates were not released at time of writing, and it was not clear whether Russian and Ukrainian officials would meet face to face. Zelensky said the talks would last two days.
Witkoff, Kushner and the US team are scheduled to meet a Russian delegation, headed by Gen Igor Kostyukov, director of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
Zelensky said the future status of land currently occupied by Russia in the east of the country was unresolved but peace proposals were “nearly ready”.
Both sides have previously highlighted the issue of territory as crucial. In particular, Putin has demanded that Ukraine surrender the 20% it still holds of the eastern region of Donetsk.
Zelensky has refused to give up land that Ukraine has successfully defended since 2022 through grinding, costly attritional warfare.
Russia also demands that Ukraine renounce its ambition to join Nato, and rejects any presence of Nato troops on Ukrainian soil after a peace deal.
Despite Trump’s limited and scattershot support for Ukraine since taking office one year ago, Zelensky focused instead on Europe’s role in the conflict, accusing the continent’s leaders of complacency and inaction.
“Just last year, here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words ‘Europe needs to know how to defend itself’,” Zelensky said. “A year has passed, and nothing has changed.”
Trump claimed that both Putin and Zelensky wanted to reach a deal and that “everyone’s making concessions” to try to end the war.
He said the sticking points in talks had remained the same over the past six or seven months, noting “boundaries” was a key issue.
“The main hold-up is the same things that’s been holding it up for the last year,” he said.
Trump also said he and Zelensky discussed how Ukrainians were surviving the cold winter without heat.
“It’s really tough for the people of Ukraine,” Trump said, noting that it was “amazing” how residents were able to persevere through the winter facing relentless Russian strikes.
#abuDhabi#war#ukraine#russia#trump#putin
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Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine
The war enters a new and dangerous phase. Military support for Ukraine is escalating to unprecedented levels. Europe is changing the rules of the game on the ground. Between drones and air defenses… the battle is rapidly evolving. The question now is: Where is this war headed?
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📰 Trump Bombs Iran, Saves Putin’s Spreadsheet
For Vladimir Putin, the Iran war isn’t a crisis. It’s found money and free PR cover.
As one analysis put it, when Trump greenlit strikes on Iran, Putin may as well have cheered: global attention swung from Ukraine to the Gulf, oil prices exploded, and Washington’s diplomatic and military bandwidth shifted away from Kyiv. With Brent soaring and sanctions on Russian oil quietly relaxed at the margins, Russia’s hydrocarbon economy just got an emergency cash infusion that years of “energy transition” had been slowly choking off.
Data backs it up: in just the first weeks of the Iran war, Russia booked billions in extra fossil fuel revenue, with higher prices and strong demand from India and China reversing a long decline in export earnings. At the same time, Ukraine is stuck watching EU aid stall, U.S. attention drift, and Trump’s team treat the Middle East as the new main theater while Kyiv begs not to be quietly downgraded to a legacy conflict.
The punchline: Moscow sells oil at war-premium prices, watches the West burn political capital in another Middle Eastern quagmire, and tests new offensives in Ukraine while the cameras stare at Hormuz. But none of this makes Trump a “Russian asset” in any literal sense — it just makes him a U.S. president whose biggest foreign-policy gamble accidentally turned into the best macro hedge the Kremlin could dream of.
#russia#putin#iran#trump#oil#war#ukraine#geopolitics
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रूस के राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमीर #Putin 4-5 दिसंबर को भारत आ रहे है.
23rd India–Russia Annual Summit सिर्फ रिश्तों का आकलन नहीं, बल्कि आने वाले वर्षों की रणनीतिक दिशा तय करने का मंच बनने वाला है.
भारत के लिए इस यात्रा के रणनीतिक, आर्थिक और भू-राजनीतिक मायने क्या हैं?
देखिए चर्चा ‘Mudda Aapka’ में.
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