“He did not specify the terms of possible negotiations”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
He did not specify the terms of possible negotiations.
“President Putin wants to meet. He even said it publicly, and we have to end this war,” Trump said.
On January 7, during his first press conference, the US president-elect, when asked about the possibility of his meeting with the Russian president, said: “I can’t tell you this, but I know that Putin would like to meet.”
The Kremlin has not yet commented on Trump’s new statement. However, on January 9, the spokesman of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmytro Peskov, said that Putin welcomes Trump’s desire to establish contacts, but so far no official requests have been made to the Kremlin. “If, after taking office, the political will to restore contacts at the highest level remains, then, of course, President Putin will only welcome it,” he said, noting that it would be appropriate to wait until Trump takes office.
During the election campaign, the newly elected president said that he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office. Trump said at a press conference that he hopes to end hostilities within six months.
“I hope much sooner than six months,” Trump said when asked if he could resolve the war within six months.
Trump’s return to the White House brings with it uncertainty about what impact it will have on the nearly three-year-old war and potential negotiations. But Trump said he was determined to “fix it,” adding that it was “hard.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi previously said that Trump could play a decisive role in ending the war with Russia and help stop Putin.
In an interview with the American podcaster Lex Friedman published on January 5, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the first negotiations on the end of the war will be with the newly elected US President Donald Trump.
“I think, on January 25 or another day, we will sit down first of all with Trump. We agree on how we can stop the war and Putin,” he said.
The president emphasized: “if Trump offers strong security guarantees for Ukraine, then after that there can be a conversation with the Russians.” “And only like that, not just the three of them sat down at once,” he added.
Analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) proved that the Kremlin does not want to make compromises in the war against Ukraine, but wants its complete surrender.