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US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron in Washington
Donald Trump received Emmanuel Macron on Monday in the White House and said he is in advanced conversations with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine within a few weeks.
Donald Trump This Monday received the first European leader in Washington since the beginning of the second term.
In a meeting with the French homologist Emmanuel Macronthe US President promised that he will end the war within a few weeks and said he was in Advanced conversations with Vladimir Putin, in this regard.
“I think the war can end soon. Within weeks. I think we can end her in weeks Intelligent formles. If we are not smart, it will continue and we will continue to lose young and beautiful people who should not be dying. And we don’t want that, ”said Donald Trump.
As for the agreement with Ukraine on rare minerals in exchange for help, Trump predicts that the agreement be signed together with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy No Prazo de Duas Semanas.
“It is possible that he will come this week or next to sign the deal, which would be great,” Trump said about Zelenskyy, quoted by.
Without detailing a date, Trump said he would also meet Putin.
Putin accepts peace troops
But it wasn’t just Donald Trump talking. At the meeting in the Oval Room, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed that Europe is prepared and has plans to put in Ukraine peace maintenance forces in the case of a ceasefire. Trump approves this idea And guaranteed that Putin too.
“Yes, he will accept. I already asked you that question. If we make this agreement, he no longer wants war, ”said Trump, quoted by the Associated Press (AP).
Asked whether Ukraine should be willing to give russia to Russia as part of a war -negotiated end, Trump said, “We’ll see.”
In the end of this week, it is the turn of British Prime Minister, Keir Starmervisit Trump. Macron and Starmer are expected to convince Trump that he does not rush with a Putin ceasefire agreement that harms Ukraine. European leaders insist on being involved in negotiations on the future of Ukraine.
The announcement of Zelensky’s visit to the White House appears the day they mark and in the midst of tension between Kiev and Washington and after the US president called Zelensky de.
Asked if he would also call Putin dictator, Trump replied that he does not use these words with lightness: “I do not use these words of light courage”.
