Russia 'ready' for war with Europe, Putin says, as Ukraine peace talks fail to deliver breakthrough

Peace talks held betwixt the U.S. and Russia connected Tuesday failed to present a breakthrough with Russian President Vladimir Putin up of discussions doubling down connected threats toward Europe, saying Russia was "ready" for warfare with the continent.

U.S. President Donald Trump's peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner had traveled to Moscow for talks with Putin and his closest aides connected a draught bid program aimed astatine ending the astir four-year warfare successful Ukraine.

The talks lasted 5 hours, Russian statesmanlike adjutant Yuri Ushakov told reporters aft the discussions, saying the gathering focused connected a U.S.-drafted bid program and was "very useful, constructive, and highly informative" but that determination was much enactment to beryllium done.

"We agreed connected immoderate things ... portion others caused criticism, and the President [Putin] besides made nary concealed of our critical, adjacent negative, cognition toward a fig of proposals. But the main happening is that we had a precise utile discussion," Ushakov said, successful comments translated by NBC News.

It's unclear which bid program was presented to the Russians aft an archetypal 28-point bid plan, secretly devised by the U.S. and Russia, was presented to Ukraine a fewer weeks ago.

Kyiv and its European allies hastily amended that plan, whittling it down to 19 proposals, with Ukrainian officials travelling to Florida past play for much talks connected the proposals.

Russia and Ukraine are miles isolated erstwhile it comes to cardinal elements of a model bid agreement, with Moscow demanding that Kyiv cede partially-occupied territory successful the eastbound of the state to Russia, and disagreeing implicit Western-backed information guarantees for Ukraine.

Putin adjutant Ushakov said Tuesday that some sides had discussed a 27-point program and had received much documents from the U.S. side, though helium did not elaborate arsenic to what those contained. He added that Russia and the U.S. had agreed to not disclose details of the talks.

The talks successful Moscow came aft Putin launched a tirade against Europe, saying its antagonistic bid proposals were "absolutely unacceptable" for Russia, and that the region's enactment had "no bid agenda."

"We're not going to warfare with Europe; I've said that a 100 times. But if Europe abruptly wants to combat america and starts, we're acceptable close now," Putin told journalists up of his gathering with Witkoff and Kushner.

European officials person expressed consternation successful caller weeks that they, and Ukraine, were excluded from archetypal talks betwixt the U.S. and Russia that led to an archetypal draught bid program seen to heavy favour Russia.

EU overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said Monday that "this week could beryllium pivotal for diplomacy. It is wide that Russia does not privation peace, and truthful we request to marque Ukraine arsenic beardown arsenic possible."

Europe volition person watched Tuesday's talks successful Russia closely. There are concerns that Trump, who has appeared to person a warmer narration with Putin than with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy astatine times, could propulsion his enactment down Russia's bid proposals successful a bid to extremity the warfare sooner alternatively than later.

Eager to look optimistic implicit the imaginable of peace, Zelenskyy told Irish lawmakers connected Tuesday that Ukraine was "closer to bid than ever before" and that determination was a "real, existent chance" of an statement aft talks with Washington.

Geopolitical experts accidental the Kremlin is consenting to eke retired the bid process for arsenic agelong arsenic possible, with Russia maintaing that it has the vantage connected the battlefield and tin extract dense concessions from Ukraine successful the bid process.

Michael Froman, president of the Council connected Foreign Relations, said it was successful Putin's "interest conscionable to support the process going, to person a agelong process of diplomatic engagement."

"He wants to person a broader speech astir Russia's reintegration with the West and relations with the United States, commercialized agreements with the United States, and to marque this agelong and drawn retired portion helium continues to weaponry Ukraine's vigor infrastructure and makes incremental advancement connected the ground," helium told CNBC's "Squawk Box" Tuesday.

Amos Hochstein, TWG Global managing spouse and erstwhile elder advisor to the president successful the Biden administration, agreed that Russia would apt resistance its heels implicit a deal.

"I deliberation it's hard to get to a constituent of a woody wherever a batch of territory has to beryllium fixed up by the Ukrainians successful instrumentality for information guarantees that are a spot escaped and flimsy, and for the Ukrainians who fought truthful overmuch implicit the past respective years, that's hard to swallow," helium told CNBC's "Squawk Box."

"I deliberation the occupation is that the Ukrainians astir apt tin compromise successful immoderate of this, but immoderate concessions they would get from the U.S. connected that woody would beryllium hard to get the Russians to hold to [ arsenic they] beryllium connected the war, privation to win, but besides person a warfare economy."

"The Russians are not successful a hurry for a woody here," helium added.