Donald Trump said on Monday hoping for a “constructive” discussion on Friday with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, while saying “upset” the rejection of territorial concessions by Volodymyr Zelensky.
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“I’m going to talk to Vladimir Putin and I will tell him +you have to end this war +,” he said during a press conference at the White House, adding: “I would like to see a ceasefire very, very quickly”.
“I think it will be fine, but it could go wrong,” also launched the American president.
He judged “very respectful” on the part of his Russian counterpart to come for this summit on American soil.
The 79 -year -old republican, who broke with the unwavering support line at Ukraine of his predecessor Joe Biden, said he was “a little upset that Zelensky Dise +I must have a constitutional +authorization” to sell territories.
“He obtained authorization to go to war and kill everyone, but he needs an authorization to exchange territories?” Asked Donald Trump. “Because there will be exchanges of territories.”
The Ukrainian president warned on Saturday: “Any decision that would be made against us, any decision that would be made without Ukraine, would be a decision against peace”. “The Ukrainians will not give up their land to the occupants,” he added.
The Russian army currently occupies around 20 % of the Ukrainian territory.
“Good luck”
“In the end I will put them both (Editor’s note: Zelensky and Putin) in a room, I will be there or I will not be there, and I think it will be settled,” also said Donald Trump.
The American president said he would immediately contact Volodymry Zelensky as well as European leaders after the long -awaited interview on Friday.
But he also hinted, and it is not the first time, that he could also completely disengage.
“Maybe I would say +good luck, keep fighting +. Or maybe I would say +we can find an agreement, “he said.
He recalled that he had been “disappointed” by Vladimir Putin recently, because of deadly Russian strikes against Ukraine, but did not reiterate the very virulent attacks which he was able to launch against the Russian president via his Truth Social network.
The exact place of the summit on Friday, the first interview in person between Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky since 2019, but which follows several telephone conversations since the return to power of the Republican in January, has not yet been made public.
Slip
Twice, in a slip, the American president said that he went on Friday “in Russia” on Friday, and not in Alaska, this vast American state of the North West bought in Russia in the 19th century.
The last summit between an American president and a Russian president had taken place in Geneva in June 2021. The meeting between Democrat Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin had been freezing.
Donald Trump assured several times that he could quickly end the war launched by the Russian invasion of 2022.
The American president, who refuses to bring the conflict to Moscow to Moscow, began at the start of the year by adopting a very hard position towards Ukraine.
He called into question the American military support and rudder Volodymyr Zelensky in public during a memorable interview in the White House.
Donald Trump recently directed his impatience against Vladimir Putin, whom he prides himself on knowing and understanding better than anyone.
