MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. The recent negotiations on Ukraine, which began in Davos, have continued in Moscow; Slovakia plans to join forces with Hungary and the Czech Republic to counter new EU anti-Russian sanctions; and the EU’s ban on Russian petroleum product imports will force carriers to revise their logistics plans. These stories topped Friday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
The recent negotiations on Ukraine, which began in Davos, have continued in Moscow. US special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner once again traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and discuss the details of a peaceful settlement. Prior to this, American negotiators heard from the Ukrainian side, and Vladimir Zelensky managed to meet with Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos. However, experts consider this to be more of a coincidence, and the pace of meetings to discuss the crisis does not indicate a breakthrough in its resolution. Nevertheless, immediately after the reception in the Kremlin, trilateral talks are expected in the UAE with the participation of Russia, Ukraine, and the US, but at a technical level.
Such a high frequency of meetings on the Ukrainian issue, first in Davos and then in the UAE, does not yet indicate any significant progress in the settlement, Grigory Karasin, the head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, told Izvestia.
