“I’m not happy with that and I’m not happy with everything about war,” said Donald Trump in the oval office during a short exchange with journalists on Friday, August 22. The American president returned in particular to the Russian strike that destroyed an American factory in western Ukraine.
He repeated Give yourself “two weeks” to make a decision concerning the conflict : “It will be a very important decision, and either it will be sanctions or massive customs duties or both, or we will do nothing and say: ‘It is your fight’,” he said.
The head of state, who saw Vladimir Putin in turn in Alaska on Friday August 15, then Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in Washington, on August 18, wants to bring together his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts at the same table.
While Volodymyr Zelensky judged a meeting with Vladimir Putin possible in Switzerland, Austria or Turkey, Moscow explained on August 22 that he there was “no planned meeting” Between the two men.