Trump says with Putin, says talks to end the Ukraine war that will start “immediately”

Washington – President Trump said on Wednesday that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and ordered members of the National Security Team “immediately” the start of negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s war with Ukraine.

The invitation between Mr. Trump and Putin is the first well -known conversation between the two since the president returned to the White House for a second term. It comes a day after Russia Absolute Mark Vogel, a teacher of Pennsylvania School, who was serving a 14 -year prison sentence and was appointed that he was wrongly arrested late last year.

“I just received a long and fruitful phone call with President Vladimir Putin from Russia,” the president He wrote about social truth. “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the strength of the dollar and various other issues.”

Mr. Trump said that he talked about “the great benefit that we will one day do at work together” and agreed to end the Russia’s war with Ukraine. In addition to the pledge to start discussions on the war in Ukraine, the president and his Russian counterpart said they will visit “a nation of each other.”

The President said that he directed Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Middle East envoy Steve Wittouf to lead negotiations on war.

Mr. Trump also spoke with Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinsky shortly after his call with the Russian leader. Zelenskyy wrote in After x That “(n) someone wants peace more than Ukraine” and that Ukraine “draws our next steps to stop the Russian aggression and ensure a permanent and reliable peace.” Mr. Trump wrote in a A statement on the social truth The conversation with Zelenskyy went “very well” and said that it was time to stop this funny war, as there was an enormous and unnecessary death at all. “

Mr. Trump’s conversation with Putin came shortly after Defense Minister Beit Higseth It seems to be undermined The main Ukrainian positions in peace talks ultimately, including by eventually excluding membership in NATO. Speaking before a closed meeting of the defense contract group in Ukraine about more aid, Higseth said that peace in the country should include security guarantees “should not be provided through NATO membership, but it must instead support it in the European and non -European forces.”

The defense president also said that the goal of Ukraine is to return to its borders before 2014, when Russia invaded and the Crimea included “an unrealistic goal.”

The president also addressed the possibility of maintaining control of Ukrainian lands occupied by its forces during an interview with Fox News, which was broadcast on Monday, indicating that Ukraine “may be Russian one day, or may not be Russian one day.”

Mr. Trump often claims that Russia will not divorce it Ukraine invasion Three years ago if he was president and pledged to the campaign campaign to end the war quickly. Vice President JD Vance Appointment to the meeting With Zelenskyy Ukraine at a security conference in Munich starts on Friday.

The president was a severe critic of US military assistance to Ukraine, prompting concerns from Kyiv that help would stop flowing with him in office. He told Fox News that Aid can be adopted Ukraine must agree to a commercial deal that allows us to reach rare Earth minerals.

“We will get all this money there, and I say I want it. I told them that I want to equal it, like $ 500 billion in rare land,” he said. “They mainly agreed to do this, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”

The United States has provided more than $ 65 billion in Ukraine’s military assistance since Russia has launched its invasion in February 2022, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.