TRUMP DEMANDS TALKS BEGIN
Zelenskyy too had said Ukraine was ready for talks, if Moscow agreed to the 30-day ceasefire.
Yet Trump, who has the power to continue or sever Washington’s crucial supply of arms to Ukraine, took a different line.
“President Putin of Russia doesn’t want to have a Cease Fire Agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the BLOODBATH. Ukraine should agree to this, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“At least they will be able to determine whether or not a deal is possible, and if it is not, European leaders, and the US, will know where everything stands, and can proceed accordingly!”
Russia and Ukraine have both courted Trump.
Kyiv is desperate to unlock more of the US military backing it received from his predecessor, Joe Biden. Moscow senses an opportunity to get relief from a barrage of economic sanctions and engage with the world’s biggest economy.
Putin sent Russia’s armed forces into Ukraine in February 2022, unleashing a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and triggered the gravest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Source: CNA
