“We will quickly have a second meeting. I would like to do it almost immediately, and we will quickly have a second meeting between President Putin, President Zelensky, and myself, if they want me to be there,” he said.
Donald Trump could give up this new meeting, depending on a scenario
The American president said, however, that he could give up organizing this meeting, depending on the content of his head to head with Vladimir Putin on Friday. “If I feel that it is not appropriate to organize it because we have not obtained the answers that we must obtain, then there will be no second meeting,” he said. He also warned that Russia would face “very serious consequences” if it did not accept to end the war, without however falling into details.
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Asked by a journalist to find out if he thought he was able to convince Vladimir Putin to stop targeting civilians in Ukraine, Donald Trump replied that he had this conversation several times with his Russian counterpart. “And then I go home and I see that a rocket has hit a withdrawal house, or a rocket affected an apartments building, and people are spread out in the street. So I think the answer is no,” he said.
Donald Trump also mentioned a “very good call” earlier Wednesday with European leaders, including Volodymyr Zelensky, to approach the question of the summit on Friday. “I would put a 10” to this call, “very, very cordial”, he added, during a speaking at the Kennedy Center, prestigious Washington Cultural Center.
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