The president of the United States, Donald Trumpsaid Thursday to be willing to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin“Immediately” to negotiate a peace agreement in Ukraine.
“From what I hear, I think Putin wants to see me. I will meet as soon as I can. I mean, immediately. Every day we do not meet, soldiers are dying on the battlefield, ”the president told journalists in the Oval Office.
Trump also said the leader Volodimir Zelenskyhe is open to agree with Moscow: “You are ready to negotiate an agreement. He would like to stop. He is someone who has lost many soldiers, like Russia. ”
“It would be nice to put an end to that war. It is a ridiculous war “the American president added.
Trump made these statements hours after announcing today in his speech at the Davos forum (Switzerland) that Ukraine “is ready to reach an agreement” of Peace with Russia.
In his speech at Davos, Trump also urged Saudi Arabia and the organization of oil export countries (OPEC) to lower crude oil prices to help end the conflict.
“Right now the price is high enough for that war to continue. The price of oil must be reduced to end that war”Said the president.
“They should have done it a long time ago. Actually, they are very responsible (the producers), to some extent, of what is happening ”in Ukraine, he stressed.
During their first days in power, Trump has threatened Russia with more sanctions and tariffs If you refuse to agree on the end of the war in Ukraine.
For his part, the NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, He warned Thursday that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the deterrent force of the world’s largest military alliance and to restore its credibility could cost Billones.
NATO has increased its forces along its eastern flank with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, deploying Thousands of troops and equipment to deter Moscow to expand its war to the territory of any of the 32 member countries of the organization.
“If Ukraine loses, then to restore the deterrence of the rest of NATO again, it will be a much higher price than we are contemplating at this time in terms of increasing our expense and increasing our industrial production,” Routte said.
“They will not be additional billions; They will be additional billions”He said in a separate world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Routte insisted that Western allies of Ukraine must “intensify and not reduce support” They are providing the country, almost three years after Russia’s large -scale invasion began.
“We have to change the trajectory of the war,” said Routte, adding that the West “cannot allow in the 21st century that a country invades another country and tries to colonize it.”
“We are beyond those days,” he said.
Nervousness in Europe is increasing in the possibility that Trump seeks to quickly finish the war in conversations with Putin in unfavorable terms for Ukraine, But Routte seemed to have repairs about trying to do things in a hurried way.
“If we got a bad agreement, it would only mean that we will see the president of Russia colliding his hands with the leaders of North Korea, Iran and China And we cannot accept that, ”said former Dutch prime minister. “That would be geopolitically a great, big mistake.”
For its part, Trump’s new special envoy for special missions, Richard GrenellHe criticized allies who talk about continuing the war but still do not increase their defense expenditure according to NATO guidelines. He said that Americans think it is “outrageous” that the Biden government refused to talk to Putin.
(With information from EFE and AP)
