US President Donald Trump gestures while he gets into Air Force One, in Abu Zabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2025.
Brian Snyder Reuters
President Donald Trump He said on Saturday that he was planning to speak to the President of Russia separately Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy On Monday to reach a weapon suspension.
“On Monday, at 10:00, I will speak to President Vladimir Putin from Russia, at 10:00, stopping” Bloodbath “, which kills on average over 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers for a week and trade,” said Trump, “Trump said Trump,” Trump said. in Saturday post About social truth.
“Then I will talk to President Zelenskyy from Ukraine, and then with President Zelenskyy, various NATO members,” he continued. “I hope it will be a productive day, a suspension of weapons, and this very violent war, a war that should never happen, will end. God bless us all !!!”
Trump told journalists on Friday He started the talks With Putin after the Russian president omitted peace conversations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. “I think it's time for us to just do it,” said Trump.
“He and I met and I think we will solve it, or maybe not,” Trump said in the comments to reporters after entering Air Force One, when he went to the USA after his four-day trip to the Middle East. “At least we'll find out. And if we don't solve it, it will be very interesting.”
Asset he became frustrated On the efforts of his administration in order to facilitate the agreement between Russia and Ukraine and told advisers in private discussions that mediation in a peace agreement was more difficult than he expected, said CNN earlier, citing sources. During his campaign, the President of the USA He said many times that he would be able to end the war Between Russia and Ukraine “within 24 hours” after taking office.
Trump recently began to blame both sides, where he had previously assigned only to Zelenskyy Ukraine for submitting “inflammatory statements” that hinder the resolution of this war. Trump recently punished Putin for Russian strikes in Ukraine at the end of April “This is not necessary and very bad time. “