Putin, Trump sit down to discuss Ukraine’s fate
US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, since the Second World War, the most deadly war in Europe in the most deadly in the high -time negotiations that can determine whether the ceasefire can be reached in Alaska face -to -face.
Before the summit on Friday, Trump greeted the Russian leader on a red carpet on the asphalt at the US military base.
The two shook their hands warmly and touched each other before boarding the nearby peak site in Trump’s limousine.
Since 2019, the two leaders sat quietly with their delegations sitting side by side at their first meetings.
They sat in front of a blue ground with the words “who follow peace”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European allies, who are not invited to talks, are afraid that Trump can essentially sell Ukraine by freezing Ukraine, and only by officially recognizing the control of Russia on one fifth of Ukraine.
Previously, Trump tried to get these concerns, saying he would allow Ukraine to decide on possible regional swaps.
“I’m not here to negotiate for Ukraine, I’m here to get them on a table,” he said.
When asked what to make the meeting successful, he said to the journalists: orum I want to see the ceasefire rapidly… If not today, I will not be happy… I want to kill. ”
White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Trump will attend his meeting with Putin by Russian special ambassador Steve Witkoff.
Russian officials accompanying Putin during the talks with the US delegation will be Yury Ushakov and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Both the US and Russian presidents want a win from the first face -to -face talks since Trump returned to the White House.
Trump, who threw the war as a “blood bath”, presses the Nobel Peace Prize in the 3.5 -year -old war as a global peaceful submitting for a ceasefire to support identity information.
For Putin, the summit is already a big win, because the West can use it to say that years of attempts to isolate Russia have been solved and that Moscow has taken back the rightful place in the upper picture of international diplomacy.
Russia’s RIA News Agency said that Russian special ambassador Kirill Dmitriev described the pre -privileged mood as a “warrior ve and the two leaders would discuss not only Ukraine, but the full spectrum of bilateral relations.
Trump said that it would end Russia’s war in Ukraine in 24 hours, on Thursday, proved that it was a harder hazelnut than he thought.
Trump said that if the talks go well, the rapid arrangement of Zelenskiy with the second three -way summit would be more important than his encounter with Putin.
Zelenskiy said Russia continued to attack Ukraine before a summit.
“They kill people on the day of negotiations. And that says a lot, Z Zelenskiy said.
Previously, Ukrainian regional officials said Russia started a ballistic missile in the Dnipropetrovsk region in Eastern Ukraine, killed a person and injured at least one person.
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A source introduced to the idea of the Kremlin, given that Putin understands Russia’s economic fragility and the costs of continuing the war, he said that Moscow may be ready to compromise in Ukraine.
Putin said it was open to a ceasefire, but the verification problems should be solved first.
A compromise can be a ceasefire in the air war.
The Ukrainians who spoke with Reuters in the center of Kyiv on Friday were not optimistic about the Alaska summit.
“There will be nothing good there, because war will not end. We will not give anything to the regions,” he said.
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