Donald Trump assured that he will meet “very quickly” with Putin once he takes office in the US
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, has assured that he will meet “very quickly” with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, once he takes office on January 20, with the aim of addressing the end of the war with Ukraine.
“There is only one strategy (to end the war) and it depends on Putin. I can imagine that he is not enthusiastic about how things have gone, because they have not gone exactly well for him either,” the republished magnate said in an interview with Newsmax.
“I know you want to meet and I’m going to meet him very quickly. I would have done it sooner, but frankly, you have to be in office. For some things, you have to be there,” said Trump, who has described the war in Ukraine as “horrible,” unleashed by the invasion order given in February 2022 by Putin.
Thus, he specified that “soldiers have been swept to levels not seen certainly since the Second World War.” “That includes Russian soldiers,” he stressed, before adding that “Ukraine is being decimated and Ukrainian soldiers are dying in large numbers”.
“All cities look like demolition sites”has valued, while criticizing that the historical heritage is suffering. “History is being murdered. “It’s something that should not have happened,” said Trump, who has reiterated that the war would not have broken out if he had been in the White House instead of Joe Biden.
“I would have entered a room with Zelensky and Putin and we would have reached an agreement. Even if we had not reached an agreement, this would not have happened”, pointed out the president-elect, who has attributed what happened to “enormous incompetence” on the part of Biden.
In this sense, he has emphasized that this position of the outgoing president “is the only reason why the war is taking place.” Finally, Trump has once again promised that, once he reaches the White House, he will do “everything possible to stop it, in reference to the conflict, for both countries.”
The outgoing administration of Biden provides Ukraine with all the military support he canincluding the approval of a new arms package worth $500 million, in order to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position in any future negotiations to end the war.
“We know that the (Biden) administration will try to leave as difficult a legacy as possible for Trump and his team in bilateral relations,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said that, in any peace negotiations, his country would need guarantees about its future protection against Russiaits huge neighbor, which has invaded Ukraine twice since the turn of the century. Europe alone cannot provide that guarantee, he said Thursday night.
“European security guarantees are not enough for Ukraine, which is fighting an enemy like Russia. We need joint security guarantees from the United States and Europe,” Zelenskyy said.
(with information from EP and AP)
