Donald Trump revives sanctions threat as Putin and Zelensky at odds over talks
“Putin is ready to meet when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready, Lav Lavrov said, Moscow’s settled discourse on a leading meeting unless certain conditions are met.
Trump, who was asked to be asked to answer Lavrov’s comments and what the next steps could be, told reporters at a White House event on Friday: “Well, we will see. We will see if Putin and Zelensky will work together. A little like oil and vinegar.
“It will be interesting to see. If they don’t, why didn’t they have a meeting, because I told them to have a meeting. But I will know what to do in two weeks.”
Trump received sanctions from the table before the Anchorage meeting with Putin. However, at the same White House event, which he mentioned about possible sanctions, he showed a photo of his meeting with Putin in Alaska and said that the Russian leader wanted to participate in the US World Cup 2026 football tournament.
Trump exhibited an image with Putin last week and said that the Russian leader expressed his desire to join the Football World Cup in the United States next year.Credit: AP
“I will sign it for him. But I was sent one and I thought you wanted to see it, a man named Vladimir Putin, whom I believe will come depending on what will happen, may be coming and not depending on what it is,” he said.
Trump’s comments did not address the fact that Russia was banned from international competitions such as the World Cup after the occupation of 2022 Ukraine and did not agree with the adequacy of the 2026 tournament to be organized by the USA, Canada and Mexico.
Putin is full of ‘meaningful’ meeting
Meanwhile, Putin, in his first public opinion about Trump since the Alaska meeting, said the President’s leadership will help to recover the US-Russian relations.
Putin, on Friday a nuclear weapon research center, “President Trump’s arrival, a light at the end of the tunnel finally appeared. And now we have a very good, meaningful and Frank meeting in Alaska,” he said.
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Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed since Russia launched a full -scale invasion of 2022. Analysts estimate that more than one million soldiers on both sides have been killed or injured, and that both sides have been attacking energy facilities.
Russia has maintained the long -standing demand for the land it holds as a prerequisite for peace in the two eastern regions of Ukraine, while the two southern regions proposed to freeze the façade and possibly delivering small areas in other regions.
European leaders cheered Trump’s tone at the White House meeting last Monday. However, while Russian officials made objections about the cornerstones of suggestions for negotiation, uncertainty about Putin’s commitment to peace efforts has increased.
Ukraine wants Western security guarantees to deterd the future Russian attacks, and the US and European authorities make detailed suggestions on how it can work. Lavrov said it was pointless to make security arrangements without Moscow’s participation in Ukraine at the beginning of this week.
“[Putin] He did not control his position significantly, Nig says Nigel Gould-Davies, the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London and former British Ambassador to Belarus.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas accused Russia of “dragging her feet ve and it was clear that Moscow did not want peace.
“President Trump says that killing many times should stop and Putin is only laughing, he doesn’t stop killing, but it increases killing,” he said.
AP, Reuters
