Washington – President Trump said on Wednesday that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and led his members of his national security team to “immediately” start “negotiations aimed at ending the Russian war with Ukraine.
The call between Mr. Trump and Putin is the first known conversation between the two since the President returned to the White House for a second term. Comes one day after Russia liberated Pennsylvania School Professor Marc Fogel, who was a 14 -year -old sentence and was mistakenly detained at the end of last year.
“I just had a long and very productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia,” the President wrote about social truth. “We have discussed Ukraine, Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar and other topics.”
Trump said that he and Putin spoke of the “great benefit that someday we will have to work together” and agreed to the need to end the Russian war with Ukraine. In addition to the promise of beginning the discussions about the war in Ukraine, the President and his Russian counterpart said they would visit the “nation of the other”.
The president said he has directed the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, the Minister of National Security, Michael Waltz and the Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to direct the negotiations on The war.
Trump also spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shortly after his call with the Russian leader. Zelenskyy wrote in a Publishes Ax this “[n]o One wants peace more than Ukraine “and that Ukraine” collects our next steps to stop Russian aggression and ensure lasting and reliable peace, “wrote Mr. Trump in a Declaration about social truth That the conversation with Zelenskyy was “very good” and said that it is “time to stop this ridiculous war, where there has been a massive death and destruction totally unnecessary”.
Mr. Trump’s conversation with Putin came shortly after the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth seemed to not undergo Ukrainian key positions in eventual peace conversations, including discarding his eventual member to NATO. Hegseth said that a Ukraine Defense Contracting Group of Defense Contracts Group, Hegseth, said that peace in the country must include security guarantees that “should not be provided through l ‘Accession of NATO, but must be supported by European and non -European.
The defense chief also said that Ukraine’s goal to return to its borders before 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, was a “unrealistic goal.”
The President also addressed the perspective that Russia maintained control of the Ukrainian territory that his forces have occupied during an interview with Fox News that was broadcast on Monday, suggesting that Ukraine “can be a Russian day or maybe not Russians someday. “
Trump often claims that Russia would not have launched his Invasion of Ukraine Three years ago if he was president and he committed to the campaign court to end the war quickly. Vice President JD Vance is Set the meeting With Zelenskyy of Ukraine at a security conference in Munich that begins on Friday.
The president has been a critic of the United States military aid in Ukraine, causing Kyiv concerns that attendance would no longer flow with him again. Told Fox News that Help could depend In Ukraine, agreeing on a trade agreement that allows the United States to access its rare land minerals.
“We will have all this money there, and I say I want to go back. And I told them I want the equivalent, as a rare land of $ 500 million,” he said. “They have essentially agreed to do it, so we do not feel stupid.”
The United States has provided more than $ 65 billion in military assistance in Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, according to the State Department.