Trump confirms he will meet Putin ‘very shortly’, but without Zelensky
Washington: US President Donald Trump confirmed that he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with a “very short time ve and argued that there was an agreement in the studies involving the region to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump said that the meeting will be announced on Saturday Aest on Friday. Putin will meet a US president for the first time in February 2022 because he launched a full -scale Ukrainian invasion.
Donald Trump has recently hardened his tone to Vladimir Putin and frustrated that the Russian leader did not want to stop hostility.Credit: AP
Only comes after the confusion about the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, or whether there are prerequisites between him and Putin, for speculation and speculation about a meeting between the two leaders and the summit.
On Friday, Trump pointed out his deadline for Putin’s acceptance of a cease -fire and peace agreement or to face additional US sanctions and secondary sanctions against Russian trade partners. So far, Trump has announced a 25 percent tariff on exports to the United States to buy Russian oil, which will start on August 27th.
As the deadline appeared, Putin pushed for a meeting with Trump and announced that the Kremlin would be a summit in days without receiving approval from Washington, which was pushed with Zelensky for a three -sided meeting.
However, Trump said that this would be a dual meeting on Friday. “We will have a meeting with Russia, we will start with Russia,” he said. “We will declare a place … I will meet President Putin in a very short time.”
As Russian President Vladimir Putin approached the US President’s “last date”, he put pressure on a meeting with Donald Trump.Credit: AP
When asked if the Russian President has a chance to accept the cease -fire and peace agreement, Trump said, “I don’t like to use the term ‘last luck’.” He said.
The agreement, which is taken into consideration, said that it involves the change of the region occupied by opposition military forces, but it did not go into details.
