Washington – President Trump said on Wednesday that he talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and managed his members of his national security group to start negotiations in Russia with Ukraine.
The call between Mr. Trump and Putin is the first famous conversation between them because the president returned to the White House for a second term. This happens through the day after Russia liberated School teacher Pennsylvania Mark Vogel, who served a 14-year term and was appointed incorrectly detained late last year.
“I just had a long and high -performance phone call with President Vladimir Putin,” the president, the president wrote about the truth of the social. “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar and various other subjects.”
Mr. Trump said he and Putin talked about the “great benefit that we would get in joint work” and agreed to stop the war with Ukraine. In addition to the promise to start a discussion on the war in Ukraine, the president and his Russian counterpart stated that they would visit each other's nation.
The President said he had sent Secretary of State Mark Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisers Michael Wals and Messenger in the Middle East Steve Witco to negotiate war.
Mr. Trump also talked to the President of Ukrainian Volodimir Zelensky shortly after the call with the Russian leader. Zelenskyy wrote in Message on x that “(N) O one wants peace more than Ukraine,” and that Ukraine “fixes our subsequent steps to stop Russian aggression and provide a solid, reliable peace.” Mr. Trump wrote in A statement about the truth of the social What a conversation with Zelenskyy went “very well” and said that it was time to stop this ridiculous war, where there was a massive and completely unnecessary, death and destruction. “
Mr. Trump's conversation with Putin happened shortly after the Defense Minister Pitt Hegsette seemed cropped Key Ukrainian positions in the final peace talks, including excluding a possible NATO membership. Speaking before the closed doors of the Ukrainian defense group on additional assistance, Hugset said troops. “
The head of the defense also stated that the goal of Ukraine to return to its borders until 2014, when Russia first broke up and joined the Crimean Peninsula was a “unrealistic goal”.
The president also addressed the prospect of maintaining control over the Ukrainian territory, which its forces occupied during an interview with Fox News, which aired on Monday, believing that Ukraine “if anything may be Russian or if they may not be Russian “.
G -n troke often claims that Russia would not have launched its Invading Ukraine Three years ago, when he was president and promised on the company's way to quickly put an end to the war. Vice -President JD Vance set for a meeting With Ukraine Zelenskyy at the Security Conference in Munich begins on Friday.
The president was a violent critic of the US military assistance in Ukraine, which caused problems with Kiev that assistance would stop flowing with him back to office. He said Fox News that Help may depend on In Ukraine, a trade transaction is agreed that gives US access to its rare land minerals.
“We have all this money out there and I say I want to return. And I told them I want an equivalent as a rare land for $ 500 billion,” he said. “They essentially agreed to do it, so at least we don't feel stupid.”
The US has provided more than $ 65 billion to Ukraine since Russia has launched its invasion in February 2022, the State Department reports.