U.S. President Donald Trump gestures, whereas he boards Air Drive One, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Might 16, 2025.
Brian Snyder | Reuters
President Donald Trump stated Saturday he plans to talk individually to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday in an effort to succeed in a ceasefire.
“I WILL BE SPEAKING, BY TELEPHONE, TO PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN OF RUSSIA ON MONDAY, AT 10:00 A.M. THE SUBJECTS OF THE CALL WILL BE, STOPPING THE “BLOODBATH” THAT IS KILLING, ON AVERAGE, MORE THAN 5000 RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS A WEEK, AND TRADE,” Trump stated in a Saturday publish on Reality Social.
“I WILL THEN BE SPEAKING TO PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY OF UKRAINE AND THEN, WITH PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY, VARIOUS MEMBERS OF NATO,” he continued. “HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE A PRODUCTIVE DAY, A CEASEFIRE WILL TAKE PLACE, AND THIS VERY VIOLENT WAR, A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, WILL END. GOD BLESS US ALL!!!”
Trump informed reporters on Friday that he was organising talks with Putin after the Russian president skipped peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. “I believe it is time for us to simply do it,” Trump stated.
“He and I’ll meet, and I believe we’ll clear up it or possibly not,” Trump stated in feedback to reporters after boarding Air Drive One, as he departed for the U.S. following his four-day journey to the Center East. “No less than we’ll know. And if we do not clear up it, it’s going to be very fascinating.”
Trump has grown annoyed along with his administration’s efforts to facilitate a deal between Russia and Ukraine and has informed advisers in non-public discussions that mediating a peace deal has been harder than he anticipated, CNN beforehand reported, citing sources. Throughout his marketing campaign, the U.S. president repeatedly stated he would be capable of finish the struggle between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours” upon taking workplace.
Trump has recently taken to blaming each side, the place he beforehand assigned blame solely on Ukraine’s Zelenskyy for making “inflammatory statements” that “makes it so tough to settle this struggle.” He additionally accused the Ukrainian chief of including to struggle issues by “boasting” that Kyiv wouldn’t legally acknowledge ceding Crimea to Russia. Trump just lately chastised Putin for Russia’s strikes on Ukraine in late April that had been “not essential, and really unhealthy timing.”
