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US efforts to stop Ukraine war energetic and sincere: Vladimir Putin
MOSCOW: Russian President
Vladimir Putin
said on Thursday that the United States was making "sincere efforts" to halt the war in Ukraine and suggested Moscow and Washington could agree on a nuclear arms deal as part of a wider effort to strengthen peace.
Putin was speaking to his most senior ministers and security officials on the eve of a summit in Alaska with US President
Donald Trump
, who is pressing for an end to the war.
He said in televised comments that the US was "making, in my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the hostilities, stop the crisis and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved in this conflict".
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This was happening, Putin said, "in order to create long-term conditions for peace between our countries, and in Europe, and in the world as a whole-if, by the next stages, we reach agreements in the area of control over strategic offensive weapons."
His comments signalled that Russia will raise the issue of
nuclear arms control
as part of a wide-ranging discussion on security when he sits down with Trump in Anchorage for the first
Russia-US summit
since June 2021.
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