According to the American daily, US President Donald Trump began the meeting saying: “I think Vladimir does not want peace.”
The American leader, who reported his two -hour conversation with Władimir Putin, was to say that Putin is not ready to end the war, “because he thinks he was winning.”
The spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt denied the reports of “WSJ”, saying that if Trump actually said that Putin thinks he was winning, he also stated several times in a conversation with Europeans that “thinks Putin wants peace and wants the war to end“.
Instead of making greater pressure on Russia, the US president was in favor of starting talks between Russia and Ukraine at a lower level in the Vatican. According to “WSJ”, these would start in mid -June.
The diary also states that During Monday's conversation, Trump opposed the call to unconditional suspension of weapons as a necessary result of Vatican conversations, claiming, contrary to the facts that he never required unconditional truce.
In a Sunday conversation with the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain, the US President was also often devoted to the subject, praising, for example, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and criticizing the European migration policy, claiming that it would lead to the collapse of Europe. French President Emmanuel Macron was then to admonish the American leader that “he could not offend their countries.”
Earlier, a similar report from Monday teleconference was published by the New York Times, which reported that Trump refused to join the European plans to impose new sanctions on Russia, because he wants to allow the interests of American companies with Russia, which Putin was to encourage him on Monday.
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Despite this, the pressure on Trump is growing in Congress to impose sanctions. Under the draft act imposing restrictions on the Russian banking and energy sector, as well as the introduction of 500 % 81 out of 100 senators have already signed the customs of goods from buying raw materials from Russia. According to the Punchbowl News portal, republican senators believe that Vladimir Putin “plays” the president and simulates the desire to talk. The portal claims that the Senate can take action in this matter after the May break, i.e. at the beginning of June.
