President Donald Trump has spoken over the phone and agreed to start negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, calling for three years US policy on Kiev. It showed a major change.
Trump spent more than an hour on the phone with Putin on Wednesday, saying, “I think we’re on the path to peace.”
He later spoke with Ukrainian President Voldimir Zelensky, who was uncommitted to whether Ukraine would become an equal participant in US negotiations with Russia to end the war.
“President Putin wants peace, President Zelensky wants peace, and I think I want peace,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Speaking on his call with Putin, Trump said: But I think I can say with confidence, he wants to finish it too, so that’s a good thing.
Trump said he will meet with Putin in person in the near future, suggesting that a meeting could take place in Saudi Arabia.
When asked specifically about Ukraine being an equal member of the potential peace process, Trump said, “An interesting question. I think they have to make peace.”
Trump’s conversation with Putin may also indicate that Washington and Moscow can work to counter the deal to end the fight in Ukraine. Participants in any decisions decided.
In his evening speech to the country, Zelensky informed him of Trump’s conversation with Putin and thanked the US president for his “true concern for our common opportunities and how we can bring true peace.” “There you are,” he said, and seemed to have a brave face together.”
“We believe that America’s strength is enough to drive Russia to peace, along with Ukraine and all our partners,” he later wrote on social media.
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– volodymyr Zelenskyy /волододир work зеленс (@zelenskyyua)
Ukraine NATO membership unrealistic
Previously, in another blow to Kiev, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses said at NATO headquarters in Brussels that ambitions to join Ukraine’s NATO was unrealistic.
“We want sovereignty and prosperous Ukraine, like you. But we must start by realizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 border is an unrealistic purpose. Not,” Heggs said at the NATO meeting.
“Chalking this fantastical goal only prolongs the war and causes more suffering,” he said.
Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea in 2014 and is still considered a territory occupied by Ukraine and many Western countries.
Hegseth said durable peace should include “robust security guarantees to ensure that wars are never launched again.” However, he said the US military will not be deployed to Ukraine as part of such a guarantee.
Trump later said of Ukraine’s NATO membership:
Following the full-scale invasion of Russia’s Ukraine in February 2022, the Biden administration joined other NATO members, declaring that Kiev’s Western Military Alliance membership was “inevitable.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the conversation between Trump and Putin covered a significant position, including the Middle East and Iran, but Ukraine was the main focus.
Peskov said Trump called for a quick halt of hostilities and a peaceful reconciliation, saying, “President Putin, in his turn, agreed with Trump, underscoring the need to remove the root cause of the conflict. Through peace negotiations. .”
“The Russian President supports one of the US president’s major papers and it’s time for the two countries to cooperate,” Peskov told reporters.
“The Russian President has invited the US President to visit Moscow and has expressed his readiness to host the US authorities in Russia on issues of mutual interest, including Ukraine, naturally, Ukraine’s settlement. did.”
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bescent said the first of Trump’s cabinet in reports that Ukraine has offered to sign a contract with Trump for ongoing US military assistance in exchange for development of Ukraine’s mineral industry. I was also in Kiev on Wednesday on my visit.
Trump has suggested that aid to Ukraine will continue to flow, but the Treasury Secretary was working in Ukraine to write assurances that the US would have access to its rare earth elements and oil and gas.
