Before seeing Putin, Trump stresses that a peace agreement will only be done with Zelensky
On the eve of his tête-à-tête in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump stressed Thursday that only a tripartite summit also including Volodymyr Zelensky could seal a peace agreement in Ukraine, repeating that it should be “share” territories. “This meeting will open the way to another”assured the American president on Radio Fox News.
He had already said before that this anchorage summit only had the vocation of “Take the ground” with Russia. kyiv and Europeans fear that in reality Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin do not undertake on Friday to redraw the map of Ukraine without the agreement of the Ukrainian president.
“The second meeting will be very, very important, because it will be the one where they will conclude an agreement. And I don’t want to use the term “sharing things”, but in a way, it’s not a bad term. There will be giving giving regarding borders, territories ”also said Donald Trump on Thursday. “I don’t know where this second meeting will take place”he added. “We think of three different places as well as the possibility, because it would be by far the easiest, to stay in Alaska”.
Vladimir Putin praised him on Thursday “Quite energetic and sincere efforts” United States “To put an end to hostilities, get out of the crisis and reach agreements that satisfy all the parties involved”. “If in one way or another the President Trump can convince Putin to stop the killing, we will want to believe it. We must (…) Hopefully something will come out of the meeting ”told AFP Zori Optasevych, a Ukrainian living in Anchorage, whose family had emigrated to the United States in the 1990s.
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