“Consultations as such are not currently underway, but contacts, of course, are taking place,” stated the spokesman, who denied a possible meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the US generals who are in Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Regarding potential plans by this military delegation to visit Russia, the presidential spokesman added that he had no information on the matter.

Russia and the United States broke the ice on February 12 with a telephone conversation between their presidents, the first since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, who had stated, among other objectives, that he wanted to end hostilities between Russia and Ukraine.

Subsequently, on August 15, the leaders met in Anchorage, Alaska, for a two-hour and 45-minute summit, their first since Trump’s re-election in January.

On October 16, after a phone call with his Russian counterpart, the US president announced a possible summit between the two leaders in Hungary to address the Ukrainian crisis and the state of US-Russian relations, which he later canceled.

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