Trump says he will have a meeting with Putin, ‘getting very close’ on Ukraine
File Photo: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the family photo session at the Apec Summit in Vietnam on 11 November 2017.
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The deadline for US President Donald Trump to stop the war in Ukraine on Friday while watching whether Russia’s White House will continue with steep penalties for Moscow customers.
Trump, which is increasingly disappointed with the Kremlin, promised Russia’s trade partners to “about 100%” secondary tariffs “if Moscow does not end its occupation in Ukraine. Then shortened.
On Friday, Bloomberg News reported that the US and Russian authorities refer to familiar sources. Work for an agreement He would stop this war and allow Russia to occupy the region during his years of invasion.
Trump made the termination of the war in Ukraine as a fundamental foreign policy target of the second presidency, and reversed the first dissolution of Moscow and the White House relations on the use of the Krem for stagnation in diplomatic progress.
At the beginning of the week, US special ambassador Steve Witkoff traveled for a eleventh -hour meeting with Putin, which Trump greeting as “extremely productive”.
“Everyone acknowledges that this war should end and we will work for it in the coming days and weeks.” he said Wednesday.
On Friday, the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s priority had a negotiation to end the war.
“In the direction of the President, the President and the President and the National Security team discuss these ways with both Ukrainians and Europeans,” Leavitt once again met with the President Putin to discuss the potential ways to peace. He said. “Russia, Ukraine and European allies with our sensitive diplomatic discussions with our sensitive diplomatic discussions with the White House, will not comment on the alleged details in the news media.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a X post That the US thought it was “stable” to buy a ceasefire. Inside Another Social Media Post accused Russia for a delay of action against peace.
There have been differences that Russia and Ukraine could end the ceasefire so far if Putin could end the war only if Kyiv gave up the ambitions of Kyiv’s NATO military alliance, and if Moscow kept the four Ukraine regions added in the last conflict. Russia is also looking for a final result for war and previously called for. New elections In Ukraine.
Trump’s optimism seemed to have decreased until Thursday, despite the suggestions that the US president could meet the Russian counterpart in the coming days.
On Thursday, on Friday, he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin if he had stopped, Trump, “We will see that he should say. He will depend on him. He was very disappointed.” He said.
The risk of Russia is the potentially resolving of the insufficient customer base for raw and petroleum products volumes where countries within the G7 are no longer allowed to take on a sea basis. Within the scope of a G7 program, countries outside the coalition maintain critical access to Western transport and insurance mechanisms as long as they buy Russian materials under only one price limit.
Russia’s sanctions depend on the increasing insulation on the international stage and in the midst of raw sales in the midst of a growth of nearly 1.4% in 2024. According to World Bank’s June forecasts.
If he puts pressure in the future, the introduction of the so -called secondary tariffs and Trump’s increasingly heated discourse will keep Moscow’s buyers with an option between continuing cheap oil purchases or interacting with the US under positive trade conditions. The first use of US secondary tariffs will often enter into force on August 27, 25% more in the duties of Russian oil consumers India.
“Tina Fordham, the founder of Fordham Global Foresight, Tina Fordham, the founder of CNBC’s” Squawk Box Europe “on Friday, is very important for Trump to decide to increase the temperature of his friend Narendra Modi in India.” He said.
“Indeed, President Trump is actually very reluctant to put the pressure directly to Putin. And so much so that he is willing to endanger this relationship with India, an extremely important ally in the wider context of the US-China relations.”
