Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe.

In remarks to Russian media, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that after a five-hour meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the two sides were “neither further nor closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There is a lot of work to be done.”

The downbeat assessment of Tuesday night’s diplomacy follows combative opening statements from Putin as Witkoff and Kushnerarrived for talks at the Kremlin, in which he accused European powers of sabotaging peace in Ukraine and that “European demands” on ending the war were “not acceptable to Russia”.

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    Russia wasn’t even ready to invade one of its former blocs. And that bloc has more than decimated its forces and resources.

    But hey, my grandfather got to watch Allied Europe destroy a fascist state that thought it could take over the world, now me and my son get to as well.

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      They said they would never attack Ukraine. In fact they’ve written it down and signed it.

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    Lmfao no you’re not, fuckwit. You’re deploying infantry bum rushes in appropriated civilian sedans with the doors ripped off. The Taliban has better kit than that, for fuck’s sake.

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      According to the tankies, Russia now has the largest army ever at 1.5m men and are stronger than when they started the special operation. So like they have …the cards…and not just endless meat waves. It doesn’t matter they’ve only gained inches of territory in months.

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    Russia losing to a small country and now think they can take on all of the Europe?

    We know his orange sock puppet has full on dementia, maybe Pootin needs a checkup too?

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      Yeah, anyone seeing this as Putin doing jackshit is kidding themselves.

      This is about having the US attack Europe. Or maybe just Ukraine. Who knows.

      It doesn’t really matter. What matters is that the US is compromised, and Europe needs to be ready for that yesterday.

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        I don’t see an appetite in the states for war with Venezuela, a nation we’ve been conditioned to think of as godless socialists for 20+ years, let alone one with NATO allies. Trump doesn’t have unlimited power, as much as he wishes he does.

        Either way, Europe should be gearing up.

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          I concur that a fight against EU is just completely unlikely, I do think Venezuela is possible since his administration has pretty much been giving free reign and seems to have their heart set on it…

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        I don’t think having the US attack them is in the cards, but I could see them sitting such a conflict out.

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    well if Russia is as “ready” to fight Europe as it was to fight Ukraine, we have no problem

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    He says, as they are press-ganging migrants to fight on the front lines and fabricating evidence in order to seize oligarch fortunes.

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    Sounds a lot like the orange fuck stains crying, bow it make sense where he learned it. Hey trump, tru shutting the fuck up and dying, do Americans a favorite

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    Cool, now that Putin is openly threatening war with Europe they will of course stop buying his oil…right???

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      I wish I could have such a small minded view of world politics that I could also pretend it’s as simple as: just stopy buying that thing from that person.

      And then what? Northern Europe can heat their homes on hopes and dreams? Throw up a couple nuclear reactors that are known to only take months to build and bring online?

      Europe has been actively moving away from Russian oil where possible (down to 19% from a high of 27%), but it’s not like the market just magically is going to come up with enough supply for the entire continent overnight.

      That’s ignoring the fact that the vast majority of “european” purchases come from a handful of countries, primarily Hungary, who is also being run by a pro-Russian dictator.

      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/how-much-of-europes-oil-and-gas-still-comes-from-russia

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        It literally is that simple. The fact the Europe was giving so much money is what caused this problem in the first place. It is not like Russia just turned into a criminal authoritarian state yesterday.

        I wish I could have such a small minded view of the world that supplying a bunch of criminals vast amounts of money because it is cheaper wouldn’t have long lasting repercussions.

        Some places like Germany could literally cut all imports tomorrow without any significant pain.

        They are still working on sanctions. Let that sink in. The latest round didn’t even start until 2022. Russia has been a clear problem since 2014. I am sure when these policies come into full effect in 2027 the problem will finally be solved /S