In addition to Trump, the French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister George Melony, Finland President Alexander Stubb, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, as well as President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky took part in the conversation. They discussed Trump's telephone conversation with the illegitimate president of the Russian aggressor country Vladimir Putin.
“I want to thank President Trump for his tireless efforts to achieve the ceasefire in Ukraine. It is important that the United States continues to participate. We will continue to support Vladimir Zelensky in achieving a strong world in Ukraine,” wrote von der Lyayen.
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May 17 Trump reported that his telephone conversation with Putin scheduled for May 19 from 10.00 (from 17.00 to Kyiv), To agree on a ceasefire. Before this conversation, and also after it, the head of the White House talked with Zelensky.
Special Messenger Trump Steve Witkoff in an interview ABC News, published on May 18, said that Trump and Putin’s telephone conversation would be “very successful”. He also claims that Trump's feeling about talking with Putin is important on the phone, because it “will clear some of the obstacles and lead us to the place where we need to go.”
On May 19, the speaker of the head of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov confirmed, the conversation of Putin and Trump will take place at 17.00 Moscow time, informed the Russian propaganda agency TASS.
In addition, the press secretary of the Russian leader claims that it is supposedly desirable for the Russian Federation to “achieve goals” in the war against Ukraine “diplomatic methods”. He added that if Washington’s mediation helps to achieve these “goals by peaceful means”, then Moscow will “give preference to this,” wrote TASS.
On the same day CNN He wrote that the conversation of Trump and Putin could be crucial in the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and that the decisive struggle conducted by the parties and their allies is the struggle for Trump's attention, which, it seems, is more and more disappointed in attempts to achieve peace.
