US President Donald Trump had a “very productive discussion” on Saturday with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelskyyy, when trying to mediate the peace agreement between Kiev and Moscow, the White House official said.
On Saturday, the meeting came before the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican City, said Reuters report.
The White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said that both leaders “met privately and had a very productive discussion” today. Cheung also said, “More details about the meeting will follow.”
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zlenskyy met in the Vatican for about 15 minutes on Saturday and agreed to meet again on this day for further interviews, a spokesman for the Ukrainian leader said.
This is the first personal conversation between Trump and Zelenskyy, because both, along with us vice president JD Vance, argued during the heated oval office meeting in late February.
Trump calls for “very high level”
Shortly after arriving in Rome to participate in the funeral of Pope Francis, US President Donald Trump called Ukraine and Russia to meet with a “very high level” and stated that they were “very close to agreement” to end the three -year war.
In his contribution to his social place Trump said it was “Hello in interviews and meetings with Russia and Ukraine”. His envoy, Steve Witkoff, visited Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
“They are very close to the agreement and both sides should now meet at a very high level to” finish it, “Trump wrote.” Most of the main points are agreed. Stop the bloodshed.
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On the same day, an interview was published where Trump was quoted as “Crimea with a stay with Russia”. “And he understands it, and everyone understands that it has been with them for a long time. It was long before Trump came,” AP quoted, as Trump said.
Zeletskyy did not want to respond to Trump’s statement in the Crimea, but repeated that the recognition of the occupied Ukrainian territory as Russian is a red line for its country, the report said.
Although higher American officials warn that the administration could soon give up attempts to stop war, President Donald Trump said on Friday that the negotiators are “very close to the agreement” and that he wanted to “do it as quickly as possible”.
Trump’s Enova meets Putin
Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, their second meeting of this month and fourth since February. Witkoff’s meeting with the death of an older Russian military officer in a car bomb near Moscow.
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Putin’s foreign policy Advisor Yuri Ushakov, who attended interviews, said the meeting lasted three hours and was “constructive” and “useful”. According to the AP report, further interviews are expected.
Putin and Witkoff discussed: “In particular, the possibility of restoring direct negotiations between representatives of the Russian Federation and Ukraine,” Ushakov says. The delegations from both countries last met in weeks after the invasion of Russia in February 2022 in his neighbor.
(With the entry from agencies)
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