U. S. President-elect Donald Trump said an assembly was arranged between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, the Republican did not present a timeline for talks between the two leaders.
“He to come together and we create him,” Trump said in remarks to a caucus of Republican governors from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday.
“President Putin will meet. He said that even publicly and we have to approve this war with her. It is a bloody waste, “Trump said about the Russian-Ukraine war.
The Kremlin said on Friday that Putin was open to talks with Trump and that Moscow had no prerequisites for staging the meeting.
“The president has declared his opening to play with foreign leaders, adding to the president of the United States, adding Donald Trump,” Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The Kremlin welcomed Trump’s preference to solve the disorders dialogue, “said Peskov.
“No conditions are required. What is required is mutual desire and political will to solve problems through dialogue,” he told reporters in a daily briefing.
The elected president of the United States made his assembly with Putin only one week and a part before assuming the position, after the promises during his crusade of bringing peace to Ukraine, which has been at war for approximately 3 years later of the large -scale invasion of Russia in February 2022.
Trump has never made concrete proposals for a high fire or a peace agreement. But he introduced proposals to put an end to war with his advisors, which includes the notable giant portions of Ukraine in Russia in the predictable future.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Trump can be decisive in the 34 -month war with Russia and prevent Putin.
In an interview with Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, released on November 29, Zelenskyy said the “hot phase” of the war could end if NATO offered security guarantees for the part of Ukraine currently under Kyiv’s control.
Zelenskyy added that the return of land occupied by Russia at the moment could be diplomatically negotiated later.
But Trump has laughed at Zelenskyy as a “seller”, and has caused the fear of the allies by rarely criticizing Putin.
On Tuesday, he also told Newshouings that he sympathized with the Russian position that Ukraine was not NATO component.
“A giant component of the challenge is that Russia, for many years, long before Putin said:” You may never have NATO with Ukraine. “Now they have said it. I was, as it is written in stone,” he said.
“And somewhere along the line, [outgoing president Joe] Biden said: ‘No. deserve to be able to register in NATO. ” Well, then Russia has someone at their door, and I can perceive their emotions about it. “
Trump has also criticized the giant amount of help of the army that the United States has sent to kyiv.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the United States under Democratic President Joe Biden has committed more than $ 175 billion in help to Ukraine, adding more than $ 60 billion in security assistance.
However, it’s unclear that aid will continue at this speed under Trump, who has said he needs to bring the war to a quick end.
Trump has also persistently complained that Washington’s NATO partners are not spending enough in defense and advised that the United States possibly review their commitment to the Army Alliance unless the expense increases.
Most European members have recently moved to raise their spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product, NATO’s current minimum recommendation.
However, Trump demanded an increase on Tuesday, asking for 5%expenses.