He left open the possibility of going to Turkey tomorrow, as the Russian president also goes to talks with the Ukrainian leader.
“I don’t know if (Putin) will go. I know he would like to be there too. It is a possibility, “the US president told reporters who accompanied him inside the presidential aircraft after departing from Saudi Arabia and before landing in Qatar.
“Our tomorrow’s program is complete,” he added, however, referring to the official visit to Doha on Thursday, “but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t do it to save many lives and then return to his tour of the Gulf countries, he added.
Trump recalled that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be present in Istanbul tomorrow. “Mark will go and Marco was very effective,” he added.
Earlier today, Trump talked to his Turkish counterpart, who participated through a video of Ahmed al -Sarah and Prince Saudi Arabia’s successor Mohammed bin Salman. According to the White House, the war between Russia and Ukraine was also discussed in this “quadruple”.
Overthrow
The composition of the Russian delegation that will go to Turkey to discuss with Ukrainian officials for the first time since the spring of 2022. “The Russian delegation will be waiting for the Ukrainian delegation in Constantinople on May 15,” he said.
However, according to information from the Russian newspaper “Komersand”, which is republishing Reuters in the Turkish big city.
“Only with Putin the negotiations”
Zelenski urged Trump to also go to Turkey to accept a face -to -face meeting to negotiate the end of the war. “If (Trump) he confirmed his involvement, I think this would give Putin to come,” the Ukrainian president said Tuesday night.
“It is his own war and therefore the negotiations must be done with him,” he argued.
Earlier, Brazilian President Luis Inasio Lula da Silva assured, from Beijing where he is, that he would push “Comrade Putin” to go to Constantinople on May 15 to speak directly with Zelenski.