(25 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 19 December 2024
1. STILL of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 25 February 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman:
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“The Russian Foreign Minister (Sergey) Lavrov has spoken on this matter (European peacekeepers in Ukraine). I have nothing to add and nothing to comment on.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 19 December 2024
3. STILL of Peskov
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 25 February 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman:
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"The next contacts in line are contacts at the expert level through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 19 December 2024
5. STILL of Peskov
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 25 February 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman:
++OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
"We see that the United States is taking a much more balanced position, which genuinely contributes to efforts aimed at resolving the conflict around Ukraine. We certainly welcome this. We believe that such a balanced stance truly reflects a genuine desire to contribute to a resolution."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 19 December 2024
7. STILL of Peskov
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 25 February 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman:
++OVERLAID BY SHOT 7++
"As for the Europeans, the statements coming from Brussels and elsewhere, including those from Kyiv yesterday, do not yet indicate a balanced approach. However, perhaps following contacts between the Europeans and the Americans, Europe may lean toward greater balance."
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STORYLINE:
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday refused to confirm or deny that U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine, saying he had no comment to offer to reporters during his daily conference call.
Trump on Monday said Putin would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal.
Shortly after Trump’s comments, Russian state TV aired a short interview with Putin, in which he said that he had not talked with Trump in detail about ending the fighting.
He said that during his phone conversation with Trump and talks between Russian and U.S. officials in Riyadh, "we certainly touched on issues related to the Ukrainian crisis. However, it was not discussed in its essence. We only agreed that we would approach" discussing it.
It wasn’t clear when exactly the interview was recorded.
Peskov on Tuesday also refused to comment on the possible deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine and redirected reporters to the Russian Foreign Minister’s recent statements on the subject.
Sergey Lavrov told reporters after the the talks in Riyadh that having European peacekeepers in Ukraine would be "unacceptable" for Moscow — just as Ukraine’s accession to NATO is.
Peskov earlier this month called a possible deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine "a very complex issue," given that those forces will come from NATO countries.
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