United States President-elect Donald Trump has said a meeting is being set up between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the Republican offered no timeline for talks between the two leaders.
“He’s going to meet and we’re creating him,” Trump said in remarks in front of a caucus with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday.
“President Putin will meet. He said that even publicly and we have to pass through this war with a bloody disaster,” Trump said about the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Kremlin said Friday that Putin opens up to Trump and that Moscow had no previous conditions to organize the meeting.
“The president has declared his openness to playing with foreign leaders, adding the president of the United States, adding Donald Trump,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The Kremlin welcomed Trump’s preference to resolve the upheaval dialogue,” Peskov said.
“No condition is required. What is mandatory is mutual preference and the political will to resolve disorders through dialogue, “he told Newshouings in an informative session.
The American president-elect made his statement on the assembly with Putin just a week and a paper before taking office, following promises of his crusade to bring peace to Ukraine, at war for nearly 3 years after Russia’s giant-scale invasion 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 the correspondent of the Sky News leader, Stuart Ramsay, published on November 29, Zelenskyy said that the “hot phase” of the war can end if NATO had security promises for the role of Ukraine lately under that of kyiv.
Zelenskyy added that the return of the occupied land through Russia at this time can be negotiated diplomatically later.
But Trump has frequently mocked Zelenskyy as a “salesman”, and caused concern among allies by rarely criticising Putin.
On Tuesday, he also told Newshouings that he sympathized with the Russian position that Ukraine was not NATO component.
“A big part of the problem is, Russia – for many, many years, long before Putin – said, ‘You could never have NATO involved with Ukraine.’ Now, they’ve said that. That’s been, like, written in stone,” he said.
“And somewhere along the line, [outgoing president Joe] Biden said:” No. They 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 Russian invasion began, the United States, under the democratic presidency of Joe Biden, has hired more than $ 175 billion in Ukraine, adding more than $ 60 billion in security aid.
However, it is not clear that the help will continue at this speed Bajo Trump, who has said he needs to put the war at a rapid end.
Trump has also persistently complained that Washington’s NATO partners are spending enough on defense and advised that the U. S. may review its commitment to the Army Alliance unless they pile on their spending.
Most European members have recently accumulated their expenditures at 2% of gross domestic product, the existing NATO minimum recommendation.
However, Trump demanded a significant hike on Tuesday, calling for spending of 5 percent.