Najm Abdulkarim 
The Russian presidency announced that President Vladimir Putin handed over the American envoy Steve Whitvan (Thursday evening) a message to President Donald Trump on Washington’s proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
“When he transmits and sees all information to President Trump, the timing of the call between the Russian and American presidents will be determined,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov today (Friday).
He expressed cautious optimism about the situation in Ukraine during its daily briefing, in which Agence France -Presse participated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced yesterday that his country supports the idea of a ceasefire, but provided that it leads to long -term peace and address the roots of the conflict.
He considered that the armistice may benefit Kiev at times, especially in the midst of the current Russian progress in the Kursk region, for example. He believed that stopping the temporary fighting might constitute an opportunity for the Ukrainian side in order to capture its breath and stack its ranks.
The US President has alluded to what the negotiations for a long -term peace in Ukraine, including the lands that Kiev should be waived for Moscow, said, “We were not working in secret. We were discussing with Kiev the lands and the spaces that they would keep or lose. ”He added,“ There is a large energy station, who will get that station? ”
However, he did not specify his destination, but it is likely that he meant the nuclear station of Zaburigia, the largest in Europe.
Russia is currently controlling this station in one of 4 Ukrainian regions, which announced its annexation after the start of the war, although it does not completely acquire it in the field, namely the provinces of Luhansk, Donitsk, Zabarujia, and the Ukrainian Sheris.
Observers expected that Moscow stipulated that Kiev would abandon these four provinces, as well as the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed to its territory in 2014, to drop the dream of Ukraine to join NATO, and stop the expansion of the alliance in the east.
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