President Donald Trump on Saturday stated that he’ll converse individually to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as he ramps up efforts to assist the 2 nations attain a ceasefire.
“I shall be talking, by phone, to President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Monday, at 10:00 a.m.,” Trump wrote in an all-caps publish on Reality Social on Saturday, including, “I’ll then be talking to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.”
Trump stated he would converse to Putin about “stopping the ‘massacre’ that’s killing, on common, greater than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian troopers per week, and commerce.”
“Hopefully it will likely be a productive day, a ceasefire will happen, and this very violent conflict, a conflict that ought to have by no means occurred, will finish,” he added.
Trump has urged Zelenskyy and Putin for months to achieve a ceasefire deal to finish the three-year-long conflict. Ending the conflict was a key campaign promise for Trump in the course of the 2024 presidential election cycle.
Officers from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on Friday to hold their first direct talks for the reason that conflict started. The 2 sides didn’t look like considerably nearer to agreeing on phrases for a everlasting ceasefire.
Putin didn’t attend the Istanbul talks. Trump instructed reporters on Friday that he and the Russian president “have to satisfy.”
“He and I’ll meet. I feel we’ll clear up it, or perhaps not,” Trump added.
The president has for weeks escalated rhetoric towards Putin, blasting him for putting Ukraine as U.S. officers tried to provoke talks between each side.
“Vladimir, STOP!” Trump wrote in a single April publish after Russia bombarded Ukraine in assaults that killed a minimum of 12 individuals.
Trump met with Zelenskyy for a non-public dialog on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome in April. After that assembly, the U.S. president questioned Putin’s dedication to ending the conflict in Ukraine, writing in one other Reality Social publish that latest Russian strikes, “[make] me suppose that perhaps he doesn’t wish to cease the conflict, he’s simply tapping me alongside,”
Earlier in his administration, Trump and prime U.S. officers, like Vice President JD Vance, focused their ire concerning the ongoing conflict on Zelenskyy, with a late February White Home assembly between the three males devolving right into a shouting match.
Final month, Ukraine and the U.S. reached a deal on an “financial partnership” between the 2 nations involving Ukraine’s uncommon earth minerals.
