Several US media – including the CNN – Russi – Interfax – and Ukrainian – Ukrainska Pravda – report a phone call between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to negotiate the end of the war. To have announced it was Trump himself, in an exclusive interview with the New York Post aboard the Air Force One, Friday.
In the interview, Trump said he believed that Putin “worries” about the deaths on the battlefield. «He (Putin) wants to see people stop dying. All those people dead. Young people, young people, beautiful people. They are like your children, two million of them, and for no reason, “said Trump.
Trump then said that this war that has lasted for almost three years “would never happen” if he had been president in 2022, arguing that “I always had a good relationship with Putin”. Comparing himself to his predecessor Joe Biden, Trump commented that “Biden was an embarrassment for our nation. A complete embarrassment ».
The owner of the White House then ensured that he had a specific plan to end the war. “I hope it’s fast. Every day people die. This war is so bad in Ukraine. I want to put an end to this damned thing », Trump has still declared to the New York Post. However, he did not answer the question of the interviewer who asked him how many times he has already spoken with Putin in the last period, saying only “better not to say”.
«Let’s start these meetings. They want to meet, “Trump would have said, addressing the National Security Councilor Mike Waltz, who was aboard the Air Force One with him.
Trump also said he wanted to obtain a 500 million dollar agreement with President Volodymyr Zelensky for access to the minerals of rare earth and Ukrainian gas in exchange for security guarantees in a potential peace agreement.
On February 5, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, recognized for the first time that there are contacts with the administration of President Trump. In the past few hours Trump has also said that Zelensky could already meet next week. The Ukrainian president believes that his meeting with Trump should take place before determining the format of interviews with Russia.
The Kremlin does not confirm, nor denies
The spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, said he could not confirm or deny a phone call between the Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and American Donald Trump, of which the New York Post speaks. Among the US and Russia, Peskov said to the Izvestia phylog experience, there are “communications conducted through different channels, and against the background of the multiplicity of these communications, I personally could not be aware of something”.