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Karoline Leavitt, White House spokesman, with an image of Donald Trump in the background
President of Russia to negotiate? “Just want to take a picture with Trump” – which will be very fast to realize Putin’s idea.
The meeting between Donald Trump e Vladimir Putin It will be held on Friday in Anchorage, Alaska State, a US territory that was part of Russia until 1867. It will be the first face-to-face meeting between the US and Russia presidents since it started.
This has originated some hopes but the White House said the meeting will be like a “Listening Exercise” for Donald Trump.
White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt is being interpreted as a Reduction of expectations About the tangible results of Friday’s summit, particularly about a potential peace agreement to end war in Ukraine, underway since February 2022.
“This is a listening exercise for the president [Trump]. Only one of the parties involved [Putin] will be present. It will serve to get a better understanding of how we can end this war, ”Leavitt said at a Press conference at the White House.
The spokeswoman also expressed trust that, in the future, a trilateral summit With the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was not invited to be at the meeting that will take place in Alaska.
In the same statements, the spokesman also admitted the hypothesis of a future meeting between Trump and Putin to be held in Russia.
Today, Wednesday, and two days before the meeting between Trump and Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will move to Berlin to participate in a video conferencing with the US president. The American leader will also maintain conversations with the leading European leaders, who argue that it is not possible to achieve peace without taking into account Kiev’s opinion and also from Europe.
Trump considers that a future peace agreement should include territorial concessions from Ukraine to Russia, but also that Kremlin’s forces to withdraw from some of the occupied Ukrainian territories.
Two minutes arrive
For Donald Trump, two minutes will be enough to realize what Vladimir Putin wants: “Let’s have a meeting with Vladimir Putin and probably in the first two minutes I will know whether or not an agreement can be done“.
In conversation with journalists, the US president explained that Zelenskyy was not invited For this historical meeting because, it claims, the president of Ukraine has been in several meetings that did not originate any concrete advance.
For his part, Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed on Wednesday to Ukraine allies to press Russia and contradict any Russian mistake before a meeting with European leaders and US homologous, Donald Trump.
“We need to press Russia to get a fair peace,” Zelensky said in a message on social networks, quoted by France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
“We must use the experience of Ukraine and our partners to Avoid any mistake by Russia”Zelenskyy added.
Putin to negotiate? Lie
Kaja Kallas also left an alert for a possible lie of Putin. The head of the European Union diplomacy thinks that the president of Russia will not negotiate anything with Trump: “Just want to take a picture with Donald Trump”.
“So that there may be an implementation of an agreement, it takes Europe and it takes Ukraine. So it seems clear that Putin is just pretending to negotiate“Kallas warned, in an interview with.
For the head of the European Union, the meeting with the president of the United States will serve as “Personal Victory” For Putin.
“Putin doesn’t want Zelenskyy sitting at the table because it would show that he doesn’t really want to negotiate. He just wants to have a photograph with Trump and postpone sanctions, which is why is playing this game ”he added.
