The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Thursday that he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will reach an agreement on his war against Ukraine and that the threat of sanctions against Russia probably probably played a role in Moscow’s decision to seek a meeting.
Trump is scheduled to meet with Putin in Alaska tomorrow.
The president of the United States said it is not sure if you can achieve a high immediate fire, but expressed interest in negotiating a peace agreement.
“I think now, he is convinced that he will make a deal. He is going to make a deal. I think he will do it, and we will discover it,” Trump said in an interview about Fox news radio‘S’ The Brian Kilmeade Show ‘.
Trump also mentioned during the Fox Interview that has three locations in mind for a follow -up meeting with the president of Putin and Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, although he pointed out that a second meeting is not guaranteed.
He said that staying in Alaska for a three -way summit would be the easiest stage.
“Depending on what happens with my meeting, I’m going to call President Zelensky, and we overcome where we are going to meet,” Trump said.
He said a second meeting, with Trump, Putin and Zelensky, would probably deepen the limit problems. Zelensky has been inflexible in not giving territory that occupy Russian forces.
“The second meeting will be very, very important, because that will be a meeting in which they get to a deal. And I don’t want to use the word ‘Divvy Things’, but you know, to some extent, it is not a bad term, okay?” said.
“But there will be a give and take as to limits, land, etc., etc. The second meeting will be very, very important. This meeting is established as a chess game. [first] The meeting establishes a second meeting, but there is a 25 percent possibility that this meeting is not a successful meeting, ”he said.
He said it would be for Putin and Zelensky to reach an agreement.
“I’m not going to negotiate your treatment. I’m going to let your treatment negotiate,” he said.
Today early, Putin spoke with his highest security ministers and officials while preparing for a meeting with Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, which could shape at the end of the largest war game in Europe since World War from two.
In the televised comments, Putin said that the United States was “making, in my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop hostilities, stop the crisis and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved in this conflict.”
This was happening, Putin said, “to create long -term conditions for peace between our countries, and in Europe, and in the world in general, if, in the following stages, we reach the agreements in the control area on strategic offensive weapons.”
His comments indicated that Russia will raise the control of nuclear weapons as part of a wide discussion about security when you feel with Trump.
A Kremlin assistant said that Putin and Trump would also discuss the “enormous without exploiting potential” for the economic ties of United Russia.
A senior official from Eastern Europe, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive issues, said Putin would try to distract Trump from Ukraine in conversations by offering possible progress in the control of nuclear weapons or something related to the business.
“We hope that Russians do not deceive Trump; he understands everything [these] Dangerous things, “said the official, added that Russia’s only objective was to avoid any new sanction and raise existing sanctions.
Russia controls around a fifth of Ukraine, and Zelensky and Europeans are concerned that an agreement can consolidate those profits, rewarding Putin for 11 years of efforts to take Ukrainian lands and emboldened it to expand even more to Europe.
An EU diplomat said it would be “scary to see how everything develops in the next few hours. Trump had very good calls yesterday with Europe, but that was yesterday.”
Trump had shown a willingness to join the security guarantees for Ukraine at a last virtual meeting with European and Zelensky leaders on Wednesday, European leaders said, although he did not mention public later.
Friday’s summit, the first russia-United States summit since June 2021, reached one of the most difficult moments for Ukraine in a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions from the large-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022.
Speaking after Wednesday’s meeting, French president Emmanuel Macron said Trump had said that the NATO transatlantic alliance should not be part of any security guarantee designed to protect Ukraine from future attacks in a postwar agreement.
However, Trump also said that the United States and all arranged allies should be part of security guarantees, Macron added.
Expanding that, said a European official Reuters That Trump said in the call that he was willing to provide some security guarantees for Europe, without explaining what they would be.
“He felt like a big step forward,” said the official, who did not want to be appointed. It was not immediately clear what such guarantees could mean in practice.
On Wednesday, Trump threatened with “serious consequences” if Putin does not accept peace in Ukraine and warned about economic sanctions if his meeting on Friday is fruitless.
Russia is likely to resist Ukraine and Europe’s demands and has previously said that her position had not changed, since Putin first detailed it in June 2024.
