The next head of the White House considers creating the position of special envoy to manage the conflict

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Sunday, November 24, 2024, p. 17

Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky affirmed yesterday that there is a possibility of ending the war in 2025 following the statement by US President-elect Donald Trump about ending the conflict. on the first day of his administration, while the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, would be open to discussing an agreement with Ukraine, but ruled out ceding important territories, and insisted that kyiv abandon its ambitions to join the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO).

When will the war end? When Russia decides it wants to end it, when the United States takes a stronger position and the global South sides with kyiv and is in favor of ending the conflictZelensky declared during a session with international media in the context of the Third International Grain Conference of Ukraine, Ukrinform reported.

The Ukrainian president added that they are open to proposals from the leaders of African, Asian and Arab countries. I also want to hear the suggestions of the new president of the United States. I think we will see them in January and we will have a plan to end this warhe emphasized.

Meanwhile, five Russian officials told the Reuters news agency that the Kremlin would freeze the conflict on the front lines in general terms, and would be open to an agreement proposed by Trump.

In addition, there would be room for negotiation over the precise division of the four eastern regions of Doniesk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, according to three of the informants, who added that Russia would be open to withdrawing from the relatively small portions of territory it holds in the Kharkov and Mykolaiev regions, in the north and south of Ukraine.

On the front, kyiv attacked the Russian port of Berdiansk, in the Sea of ​​Azov, with a British Storm Shadow missile, reported the co-president of the coordination council for the integration of the new regions, Vladimir Rogov. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops lost some 360 ​​troops in the fighting in the Russian province of Kursk in the last 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

Trump is considering creating the position of special envoy for managing the conflict in Ukraine and would appoint Richard Grenell, former director of national intelligence, to the position, the Reuters agency reported.

According to the information, Grenell, who was ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence during Trump’s term from 2017 to 2021, would play a key role in the incoming US government’s efforts to end the war.

Meanwhile, North Korea has imported more than a million barrels of oil from Russia this year, defying United Nations sanctions, according to satellite analysis. The report was published after a South Korean official accused Russia of supplying air defense missiles to Pyongyang in exchange for allegedly sending troops to support it in Ukraine.