Are talks imminent between Trump and Putin over Ukraine?

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The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is "ready" for talks with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump over the Ukraine conflict.  Trump has warned of tough new sanctions on Russia if a settlement isn't reached and said he was prepared to meet Putin immediately. Dasha Chernyshova reports from Moscow.  #Russia #Putin #Trump #UkraineConflict

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00:00Well, Moscow has reiterated its position saying that it is open for the negotiations with

00:06the newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump and Moscow insists it was not on the

00:12Russian side that this dialogue has been interrupted, saying that the ball is now in the American's

00:18court and Moscow is waiting for the signals for the upcoming contact between the presidents

00:23of the two countries.

00:25At the same time, Moscow is saying very clearly that those threats of sanctions from the US

00:30side have nothing new and Moscow already has seen most of the sanctions being imposed by

00:37the Trump administration in his first term.

00:41So Moscow is now saying that indeed it is waiting for this dialogue.

00:45Moscow will inform about the upcoming negotiations should they be taking place in a timely manner

00:51according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

00:53But Moscow is also saying that it will be willing to engage with Washington into the

00:58disarmament negotiations, saying that they will be actually in the benefits of the entire

01:04world and especially in the benefit of the peoples of these two countries.

01:08However, Moscow does insist that when they talk about the disarmament and the nuclear

01:13arsenals, then the nuclear arsenals of the UK, France and the US allies, they should

01:18all be taken into account.

01:21So we understand that Moscow is sending a very strong signal to Washington that it is

01:25open for the negotiations and there are different layouts of how these negotiations could be

01:30taking place.

01:31But also we've heard from the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Gorshko on Friday

01:34saying that any possible solution on Ukraine must include international guarantees that

01:40Kyiv will not be joining NATO.

01:43And he said that will be addressing the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict.

01:47So the diplomatic dialogue continues.

01:50So to the military action, Russia saying it's repelled a massive Ukrainian drone attack

01:56across the country.

02:02That's right.

02:03The Russian Ministry of Defence this morning said that there were at least 121 Ukrainian

02:08drones intercepted over the Russian regions, 13 Russian regions over the course of the

02:14past night.

02:15We also understand there have been drones even in the Moscow region, in Verminsk.

02:19We have also seen those drones attacking the settlements close to the Russian capital including

02:26in Kolomna.

02:27But 20 drones have been intercepted in the Ryazan region where an oil refinery has caught

02:32fire as per the witness reports.

02:34We also understand that a military airfield has been attacked.

02:38But the governor of this region speaking to the public has indeed confirmed the strike

02:42but said that there was only a residential house that has caught a fire.

02:47We also understand that there were attacks against some residential constructions in

02:52the Voronezh region and also in the Bryansk region.

02:56Ukrainian drones, according to the local authorities, have hit the microelectronics plants.

03:02And the work of this plant has been interrupted because of this attack.

03:06But those attacks have been persistent.

03:08And we are also hearing from the aviation authorities that several airports have forced

03:13to stop the operations for some time including in the city of Kazan, Penza, Saratov, Samara

03:19and Nizhny Kamsk.

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