SOCHI, November 8. /TASS/. A chance for Ukrainian reconciliation has appeared – the United States may study the statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club, academician Alexander Dynkin told TASS on the margins of the event.

“Yes, of course, it is possible,” the president of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations responded to a question about the possible end of the Ukrainian conflict. “It has long been known about [the conditions for ending the conflict, which include] Kiev’s neutrality, determination of Ukraine’s new borders along the division line, maybe with taking our new regions into account. Now there is some chance.”

Donald Trump earlier said that he “would keep the focus on the Ukrainian issue,” unlike 46th President of the United States Joe Biden, Dynkin noted. “And I hope that US experts will carefully study this speech [of Vladimir Putin] and get his idea,” the academician emphasized.

At the same time, agreement on conflict termination requires “some guarantees, some insurance instruments” from the US side. “We will hardly do this [conclude such an agreement] again – we have been tricked too many times,” Dynkin pointed out.

During the Valdai discussion, the Russian president said that Moscow was ready for peace talks on Ukraine, based not on Kiev’s “wishlists that change from month to month but <…> on the situation on the ground and the agreements that were reached in Istanbul.”