Trump says ‘setting up’ meeting with Putin over Ukraine war
US President-elect Donald Trump says he is working to set up a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in what is claimed to be part of his administration’s propaganda campaign to end the protracted war in Ukraine.
“He wants to meet and we’re setting it up,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News during a meeting with Republican governors in Florida on Thursday.
The US president-elect said he has had “a lot of communication” with Chinese President Xi Jinping and has spoken with numerous other world leaders, but he has yet to speak with Putin.
“But President Putin wants to meet. He’s said that even publicly, and we have to get that war over with. That’s a bloody mess,” Trump said of the war in Ukraine.
During his campaign rallies before re-election as US president, Trump had vowed to end the devastating war between Russia and Ukraine by bringing Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to the negotiating table.
Russia launched what it called a special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022 partly to prevent NATO’s eastward expansion after warning that the US-led military alliance was following an “aggressive line” against Moscow.
Since then, the West has flooded Ukraine with a vast volume of Western arms and ammunition.
Political experts and others following world developments are waiting to see how Trump’s return to power later this month will impact the war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last month that Russia was open to talks on Ukraine after Trump called for “an immediate ceasefire and negotiations.”
The outgoing administration of US President Joe Biden says it is trying to give Kiev the greatest leverage possible ahead of possible negotiations promised by the incoming administration to end the war this year.
The Biden administration has given Ukraine more than $65 billion in aid since the war began in late February 2022.
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