Kremlin claims relations with U.S. ‘are balancing on the brink of a breakup’ Trump claimed during campaign that he would be able to end war in 24 hours but has yet to reveal detailed peace plan.
“Or it could simply be that, as seems to be the case with Trump’s earlier promises of immediate action to bring the conflict to an end, that there isn’t, in fact, a plan yet,” said Giles, noting that things may clear up later this week when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends the Munich Security Conference.
Senior Russia and Eurasia fellow at the think tank Chatham House in London, Keir Giles, told NBC News of Trump’s Sunday statement that “it would be tempting to think that this was all part of a careful plan for not releasing information too early in order not to bridge this process.”.
Also on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said he would “neither confirm nor deny” Trump’s assertion on Air Force One on Sunday that he and Putin had spoken.
The Russian government also declined to confirm whether President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump have spoken, as Trump claimed on Sunday.
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