Trump-Putin meeting a listening exercise: White House
An Alaska Summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “is an exercise of a listening for the president,” says the White House, a rapid Russian-Ukraine Armistice Agreement.
“There will be a single party involved in this war, which will be included in this war, and I hope to understand how we can end this war more robust and better,” the White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said, “This war will go again.” He said.
“This is a listening exercise for the president.”
The White House said Trump would meet Putin one -on -one during the talks in Anchorage.
You can also visit Russia in the future.
“Maybe there are plans to travel to Russia in the future.” He said.
There are key problems in front of the talks.
Trump said that the two sides should leave the land to end the bloody three and a half -year -old conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the constitution of his country banned such an agreement and that no arrangements could be made without Ukraine’s participation in negotiations.
The White House refused to comment on the speeches before the Putin meeting between Trump and Zelenskiy.
Trump said on Monday that Zelenskiy could be invited to a future meeting with Putin.
“The President is deeply respectful of all parties who participated in this conflict and try to end this conflict.” He said.
In a statement on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’nun consulted before the summit.
The Ministry said that Lavrov and Rubio express his hopes that the discussed details will be successful.
Brief explanation of the phone call did not give any more information.
Trump presents the meeting in Alaska as an attempt to approach the end of the war in Ukraine.
In this context, he talked about a possible land exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
Zelensky said that Ukraine will not give up the eastern part of the country, which was occupied and controlled by Russia on Tuesday.
In his speech with journalists, he stressed that the country could not leave Donbass, which consists of Donetsk and Luhansk to a large extent, and would not give up.
“Donbass will be a jumpboard for the Russians for a new, future attack,” he said.
With DPA
