Russian President Vladimir Putin had put out “a very promising statement” on a possible Ukraine truce, but it wasn’t complete’, said US President Donald Trump on Thursday.
Putin said he backed the idea of a truce, but he had serious questions about how it would be implemented that he wanted to discuss with Trump
The US president said that “I’d love to meet with him or talk to him. But we have to get it over with fast.”
“As you know, Ukraine has agreed to complete a ceasefire and we hope that Russia will do the same. Thousands of people have been killed. Now, we want to see that stop. They are not from America and they are not from the Netherlands, for the most part, but they are people and everybody feels the same way. We want it to stop. It is a tremendous cost to America and other countries It would have never happened if I was the President but it did happen,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
Trump said that his special envoy Steve Witkoff is in serious discussions with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine.
“Hopefully they’ll do the right thing,” Trump said.
Trump said he did not think Russia would attack US allies. “It’s not going to happen. We’ll make sure it doesn’t happen,” he said.
addressing the press after meeting NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Oval Office.
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