President Donald Trump announced he will respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the telephone Monday to discuss the conflict in Ukraine.
After neither Trump nor Putin went to Turkey before this week for peace talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, Trump announced the couple will explain the” stopping the’ disaster'” in a phone on Monday. Trump made the announcement in a blog on Truth Social Saturday night, even saying he would talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and people of NATO.
” I WILL BE SPEAKING, BY TELEPHONE, TO PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN OF RUSSIA ON MONDAY, AT 10: 00 A. M. THE SUBJECTS OF THE Name WILL Remain, STOPPING THE” BLOODBATH” Who IS KILLING, ON AVERAGE, MORE THAN 5000 RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS A WEEK, AND TRADE”, Trump posted.
” I WILL THEN BE SPEAKING TO PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY OF UKRAINE AND THEN, WITH Executive ZELENSKYY, VARIOUS MEMBERS OF NATO. HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE A Successful Time, A CEASEFIRE WILL TAKE PLACE, AND THIS VERY VIOLENT WAR, A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, WILL END. GOD BLESS US ALL!!”! he added.
The next known discussion straight between Trump and Zelensky was at Pope Francis’s death in Vatican City in April, with Trump taking a more important tone toward Russia in recent months after being critical of Ukraine for the preceding months.
While public discussions of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have ramped up in the months since Trump returned to office, little tangible progress has been made. Both Russia and Ukraine have continued to fight, with a Russian drone strike killing nine people in the Sumy region of Ukraine on Saturday.
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Despite showing frustration with Putin at times in recent weeks, he has remained optimistic that the Russian president wants to end the war — which began when his country invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
” I think Putin is tired of this whole thing, and he’s not looking good, and he wants to look good”, Trump said on Fox News ‘s , Special Report , on Friday. ” Don’t forget, this was supposed to end in one week. And if he didn’t get stuck in the mud with his army tanks all over the place, he would have been in Kyiv in about five hours”.
