Trump says he will meet Putin despite Kremlin’s refusal to talk to Kyiv | Russia
Donald Trump said that although the Russian leader refused to meet Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he was ready to meet Vladimir Putin-speculation that direct talks between the President of the two warfare are prerequisite for a high-level US-Russian summit.
Speaking to journalists in Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said that Putin did not have to meet Zelenskyy before the collection of US and Russian presidents.
“No, not, Tr Trump said. “They want to meet me and I will do my best to stop killing.”
This is contrary to a New York Post report that says that Putin will meet with Putin, which Putin has previously rejected if Trump meets Kremlin leader Zelenskyy.
The White House and the Kremlin officials and sometimes contradictory messaging about the demands of the leaders and the status of planning, Trump’s efforts to negotiate a ceasefire for the war in Ukraine proposed a new chapter.
Putin said that the Kremlin was not ready to meet Zelenskyy, even if he claims that the preparations for a binary summit with Donald Trump next week.
Putin, Zelenskyy from the meeting with Putin, “I have nothing against it, but certain conditions should be created for this,” he said. “But unfortunately, we’re still far from creating such conditions.”
After meeting with Trump’s special ambassador Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin on Wednesday, Putin’s reports, Washington’s reports claimed that the Russian President first accepted Trump and then Zelenskyy in a secondary format.
And although the Kremlin seems excited about the possibility of a part of a set of part, Zelenskyy rejected a three -way summit.
Yuri Ushakov Putin assistant Moscow said to journalists in Moscow, “We recommend focusing on preparations for a bilateral meeting with Trump in the first place.” “As for a three -way meeting that Washington mentioned yesterday, it was only something mentioned by the American during the meeting in the Kremlin. But this was not discussed. The Russian side left this option completely without commenting.”
A place for the potential binary summit was not given, but Putin, who met Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates leader in the Kremlin, claimed that the UAE could be a suitable place to negotiate. “We have many friends who want to help us organize such activities. One of our friends is the President of the United Arab Emirates,” he said.
It is likely that Putin and Trump are trying to reach an agreement with no one else in the room in Ukraine.
On the other hand, Russia supports the idea of a “great power summit ği that Trump and Europeans can try to negotiate on their presidents. Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to a Kremlin, said the meeting would be a good opportunity to talk directly with Trump to avoid “misinformation ğı used by other countries to influence the US president. He claimed that the summit could be “an important historical event ..
Trump called Zelenskyy after Witkoff left Russia on Wednesday. NATO chief Mark Rutte and several European leaders were also in line.
On Thursday, Zelenskyy took care not to criticize Trump, but he said he would talk to European allies. “We have repeatedly said that the search for real solutions in Ukraine can only be really effective at the leader level. We need to decide with a series of problems in time of such a format,” he wrote.
Later, he said that he was talking to the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron. “I gave [Macron] Our Ukrainian view of the speech between President Trump and his European colleagues. ”
Zelenskyy called for direct discussions with Putin as a mediator with Trump or Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Putin rejected the possibility so far and claimed that lower levels of negotiation groups should first reach an agreement. However, a little progress has been made in a series of direct talks in Türkiye, Moscow sends a young delegation and does not seem ready for real talks.
In recent weeks, for the first time under the chairmanship of Trump, he attracted a harder line with Moscow and described Russian attacks against civilian targets in Ukraine as “disgusting ve and promised to promote new sanctions if it was not progressed to an agreement on Friday.
White House officials, based on the purchase of Russian oil on Wednesday for India sanctions are expected and on Wednesday, additional tariffs announced, he said. However, at the same time, Trump seemed to be satisfied with the results of Witkoff’s talks.
Ushakov said the debates claimed that the debates were the “business world ve and that they focus on a brilliant cooperation between Washington and Moscow. “It was confirmed again that Russian-US relations could withstand a completely different, mutual advantageous scenario, which has been largely different from how they have developed in recent years,” he said.
Trump said on Wednesday evening that the meeting could be “very soon”. The others in Washington looked less confident. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said he could have a meeting soon, but he said, “Obviously it can happen before,” he said.
If it continued, Joe Biden would have been the first US-Russian leaders in 2021 since he met Putin in Geneva.
