Trump says Putin wants a deal. Kremlin says Ukraine war aims are ‘unchanged’

Anchorage – Vladimir Putin generous praise President Trump thanked Trump on Friday before the high -betting summits in Alaska, for three years since the Russian leader tried to conquer the country, he thanked Ukraine for “energetic and sincere efforts to stop the energetic and sincere war”.

Trump is also in the White House Expressed optimism Before the talks, he told journalists that he believed that Putin wanted to see a deal after a million Russian casualties on the battlefield.

Nevertheless, Russian Foreign Ministry officials said that Putin’s war targets remained on Wednesday ”unchanged. “And this week, an aggressive Russian progress along the fronts proved to military analysts that Moscow was not a cease -fire plan.

It was the day of diplomatic maneuvering before an extraordinary visit from a Russian President to the US homeland, and Putin received the first audience with a Western leader since the war began.

“It will be very interesting – we will learn where everyone is standing,” Trump told journalists At the Oval Office on Thursday. “If it is a bad meeting, it will end very quickly. And if it is a good meeting, we will get peace in the very near future.”

Putin’s positioning before the summit and Trump’s enthusiasm for an agreement continue to increase concerns that Alaska negotiations in Europe and Ukraine may lead to a bilateral agreement approved by KYiv, designed by Moscow and approved by Washington.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky On Thursday, Trump supports Putin’s effort to öz prove that he is serious about peace ”.

10 Downing Street said in a statement, “Ukraine acknowledged a strong sense of unity and a strong decision to achieve a fair and lasting peace,” he said.

Trump said that the Alaska summit to be held in the common Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage was to yakla adjusting the table için for direct talks between Putin and Zelensky.

However, Trump, who addressed journalists, argued that it would be enough concession from Moscow to refuse Putin Dominion over the entire Ukraine – and allow him to hold on to the regions he seized in his military. The President will have recently been a part of the land of “replacement ın of the land, and a statement rejected by Kiev.

“I think President Putin wants to see an agreement, Tr Trump said. “If I wasn’t the president, it would have taken over the whole Ukraine.”

“I am the president and he won’t deal with me,” he added.

The Russian state media said on Thursday that Putin’s advisors gathered to report “how the negotiation process on the Ukrainian crisis went”.

“I think it is very energetic and sincere efforts to stop the struggle, stop the crisis and achieve agreements that concern all parties to this conflict, Tr Putin said.

However, the US efforts to stop Russia’s fight against the fight for months, the Moscow war in the war in an increase in an increase in the future pressure.

“Putin thinks he won this war military,” said Frederick Kagan Critical Threats ProjectHe cooperates with the War Research Institute to produce daily war area evaluations about conflict. “It is also sure that Western support for Ukraine and especially US support will be broken and Ukraine will collapse and can take control of everything.”

“For a long time he has been his theory of victory, Kag Kagan said,“ And he’s a big part of the problem, because he won’t make concessions as long as he’s sure he wins. “

Throughout a strategic part of the front, Russian attacks near an important Ukrainian logistics center frightened Ukrainian supporters at the beginning of this week. Although serious, Kagan said that Russia did not hold the region, and the conditions for the aggressive Russian operations have been determined for months.

“The Russians continue to take the initiative and continue to earn,” he added. “The first step in changing Putin’s calculation about war is to urgently help Ukrainians to stop earnings.”

After meeting with Starmer in London, Zelensky said that he and the British leader “discuss the expectations and possible expectations of the meeting in Alaska”.

“We have also discussed the security guarantees that can make peace really durable in detail, Z Zelensky said,“ If the US manages to put pressure on Russia to stop the murders and to include real, essential diplomacy. ”

Trump and Putin are planning to come to the US air base to each other and are expected to gather on the asphalt before they are drawn to a private meeting.

Later, Trump and Putin will receive questions from the pressHe said the White House.