The president of the United States, denied Thursday that a meeting between the Russian president, and his Ukrainian counterpart, is a necessary condition for a meeting between him and the Russian leader.
This was expressed to the press one day after the White House announced that Trump intends to meet next week with Putin and then keep a meeting three with Zelenski to end the Ukraine War.
“No, no,” Trump replied when asked if Putin must meet with Zelenski to also be able to see the American.
However, a White House official told that Trump would only meet with Putin if he agreed to meet with Zelenski.
This Friday concludes the ten -day ultimatum that the Republican leader imposed on Putin to decree fire in Ukraine or, otherwise, he will impose sanctions to prevent third countries from selling with Russia.
When asked if the ultimatum on Putin is still standing, Trump replied: “It will depend on him, we will see what he has to say. But it will depend on him. I am very disappointed.”
Mutual interest
Trump’s special envoy, held on Wednesday in Moscow a three -hour meeting with Putin in which they approached the possibility of celebrating next week a summit among the presidents of the United States and Russia that ends the War of Ukraine.
Putin said Thursday on television that the interest of meeting soon comes from both parties.
The Kremlin chief does not meet with an American leader from the summit held June 2021 in Geneva, while the faces with Trump were last seen in June 2019 in Helsinki, during the first mandate of the Republican.
Call with von der Leyen
The president of the European Commission, spoke on Thursday, on the other hand, with the Ukrainian President about the “events of recent days” and the possibility of dialogue in this crisis. In a message on social networks, von der Leyen shared that both also spoke of what is to come in the negotiation of the entry of Ukraine into the European Union and the reconstruction of this country after the Russian invasion. “The position of Europe is clear. We fully support Ukraine. We will continue to play an active role to guarantee a fair and lasting peace,” he concluded.
The European Union celebrated this Thursday “any pressure to ensure that Russia is at the negotiating table” of Peace with Ukraine, before a possible meeting between Zelenski, Trump and Putin.
“First of all, nobody wants peace than Ukraine and the EU. It is very clear that Russia is not interested in any peace as such because we have seen it in their actions, not in his words,” said the community spokeswoman Anitta Hipper during the daily press conference of the European Commission (CE).
Von der Leyen did not participate in the telephone conversation last Wednesday between Zelenski, Trump and several European leaders, but “received a detailed report” about that call.
