• Trump is trying to mediate a full ceasefire in Ukraine
• Russia says American suggestions need rework
• Says Moscow takes us ideas ‘very seriously’
  

Russia cannot accept us suggestions to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not solve problems that Moscow considers to have caused the conflict, said a senior Russian diplomat, which suggests the US Russia is talking about the subject had stopped.

Comments from Deputy Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggest that Moscow and Washington have so far been unable to bridge differences that President Vladimir Putin traveled more than two weeks ago when he said American proposals needed reworking.

They come as US President Donald Trump seems to be becoming more and more impatient with what he has proposed may be fed over a wider deal by Moscow.

Trump in recent days has said he is “damned” with Putin and has talked about imposing sanctions against countries buying Russian oil if he feels Moscow is blocking an agreement.

Ryabkov, a specialist in the US -Russia relationship, said Moscow was not yet able to move on with an appointment.

“We take the models and solutions that Americans have suggested very seriously, but we cannot accept it all in its current form,” Ryabkov was quoted by state media as telling the Russian magazine “International Affairs” in an interview released on Tuesday.

“As far as we can see, there is no room in them today for our greatest demand, namely to solve the problems associated with the fundamental causes of this conflict. It is completely absent and it must be overcome.”

Putin has said he wants Ukraine to drop his ambitions to join NATO, Russia to control four Ukrainian regions, as it has claimed as its own, and the size of the Ukrainian army is limited. Kyiv says these requirements are tantamount to demanding its capitulation.

‘Very complex’

When asked about Trump’s latest comments on wishing Putin should make an agreement on Ukraine, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov journalists earlier on Tuesday told Moscow “continued our contacts with the US side.”

“The subject is very complex. The substance we are discussing is related to the Ukrainian settlement, is very complex. This requires a lot of extra effort.”

Russia also said on Tuesday that it was fully complied with an American patterned moratorium to attack Ukraine’s energy facilities.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told State TV that Defense Minister Andrei Belousov had informed Putin of alleged Ukrainian violations during a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Tuesday.

Russia adopted a list of the violations of US national security adviser Mike Waltz and State Secretary Marco Rubio, Lavrov said.

Before the weekend, Trump had taken a more conciliation attitude towards Russia, which has nervous the United States’ European allies as he tries to mediate a cessation of the conflict in Ukraine, now in the fourth year.

But in recent days and in the midst of lobbying from Europeans as the President of Finland, who urged him to keep Russia for accounting, he has adopted a harder tone.