US Offers Russia Frozen Assets, Lukoil Sale, Belarus Potash for Partial Truce
US negotiators offered sanctions relief and asset access to push Moscow toward a limited truce before winter, officials said.
- On Friday, the Trump administration proposed economic incentives to Russia to secure a partial truce, including unlocking up to $100 billion in frozen assets and authorizing a Lukoil buyout.
- Following a telephone consultation on Friday, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected formal peace talks with President Donald Trump, reaffirming Moscow's intent to continue military operations.
- In Miami on Friday, US officials hosted multilateral discussions that concluded without a breakthrough, as European and Ukrainian officials questioned Moscow's willingness to de-escalate.
- Ukrainian negotiators demanded reciprocal financial releases and security guarantees during consultations, while Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha warned that unilateral concessions project weakness and risk further escalation.
- Negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner revived an offer to lift sanctions on Belarusian potash exports, involving an international consortium of Middle Eastern investors with prior commercial ties.
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US President Donald Trump's administration has proposed to Russia a number of beneficial economic incentives to encourage Moscow to accept a limited truce with Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure or maritime corridors, Kyiv Post reports, quoting the New York Times.
US President Donald Trump's envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, offered Russia three economic incentives during negotiations held in September, in an attempt to persuade Moscow to accept a limited ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. The news was reported by The New York Times, citing Ukrainian officials familiar with the talks. According to the newspaper, Ukrainian officials were surprised by the scale of economic concessions that US represent…
The Trump administration is ready to offer Russia major concessions, The New York Times reported, citing officials familiar with the negotiations. According to them, the US side has offered to unfreeze Russian assets, allow the sale of foreign assets to Lukoil, or ease sanctions against Belarus as part of discussions on the terms of a ceasefire.
The Donald Trump administration has offered Russia to unfreeze assets for a ceasefire, as well as a few other concessions that could bring the end of the conflict closer, NYT writes. The American negotiators Jared Kouchner and Stephen Whitkoff have put forward an initiative to lift part of the sanctions to achieve a truce in Ukraine. United States representatives on the margins of the General Assembly have offered three beneficial economic incen…
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