Trump showed on Friday in the oval office Your photo with Vladimir Putin taken a week ago in Alaska. “This is a great photo,” said the US president, presenting a photograph to gathered journalists.
He did not rule out that Putin will come to the World Cup, which will take place, among others in the US next year. However, he added – it will depend on what will happen around the war in Ukraine. “He respects me and our country very much, but others are not so much,” said Trump.
He noted that He gives Putin “a few weeks”. According to him, within two weeks it will turn out in which direction the issue of war in Ukraine will be going. Trump announced that he would then make a “very important decision” on Russia. He added that they could be Either sanctions or nothing.
When asked about what he thinks about Russian attack on the American company FLEX in Mukaczew, Ukraine, He replied that “he didn't like it.” “I don't like everything that is happening in this war,” he added.
Sergei Lavrov: Putin is not planning a meeting with Zelanski
Earlier on Friday, Donald Trump, talking to journalists about the prospects of the two -sided meeting of Vladimir Putin and Wołodymyr Zelanski, which the American president is trying to organize, said: – We will see if Putin and Zelanski will work together. They are very different, they do not get along well for obvious reasons.
His statement fell after Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Vladimir Putin was not planning a meeting with Volodymyr Zelnski.
What next with negotiations on peace in Ukraine?
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday after talks with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelnski and European leaders that He is in the process of arranging the meeting of the Ukrainian president with Vladimir Putin regarding the end of the war. After him, there would be another meeting, three -sided, with his participation.
Wołodymyr Zielnski announced after meeting in the White House that he was ready to meet Putin in every format, even without preliminary conditions. At the same time, both he and the European allies of Ukraine emphasized that peace negotiations should take place in the conditions of fire suspension.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Russia carried out one of the greatest attacks from the air on the territory of Ukraine from the beginning of the full -scale war, hitting, among others In The plant of a large American FLEX electronics manufacturer in the west of the country.
