The President of the United States Donald Trump was caught on an open microphone who told French President Emmanuel Macron that Russian leader Vladimir Putin – who had met in Alaska earlier – wants to conclude the peace agreement of Ukraine “for him”.
When he hosted seven European leaders in the White House to coordinate “security guarantees” for Ukraine, Trump was caught by Macron’s message: “I think (Russian President Vladimir Putin) wants to agree.”
“I think he wants to conclude an agreement for me, you understand it? How mad, as it sounds,” Trump said, suggested that Vladimir Putin, who launched a military offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, is open to finally end the war in Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday, August 18.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump also reported that Vladimir Putin agreed to organize a meeting with Volodymyr Zlensky to discuss the conditions of peace in Ukraine.
Trump said he started to provide for a personal meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zlenskyy. “At the end of the meetings, I called President Putin and began an agreement on the meeting, on the place to be intended, between President Putin and President Zlenskyy,” he said.
Meanwhile, Trump promised that the US would be involved in the provision of security guarantees for Ukraine. The American leader said there would be some form of security guarantees for Ukraine, but did not reveal whether this would include US troops.
Security guarantees for Kyiv will probably be developed within 10 days, Zelsky informed.
“Security guarantees are likely to be” unpacked “by our partners and more and more details will appear. It will be somehow formalized on paper in the next week for 10 days,” he said Zlensky.
(Tagstotranslate) French President Emmanuel Macron
