Before meeting Alaska to discuss peace in Ukraine, the President of the United States Donald Trump threatened “serious consequences” on Wednesday, if his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin disagrees with peace. In another statement, however, Donald Trump also proposed a meeting between him, Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zlensky.
Donald Trump did not specify the warning he gave Putin, but warned only of “very serious consequences”. Previously, Trump warned against economic sanctions if his meeting with Putin on Alaska on Friday 15th August proved to be infertile.
Asked if Russia would face any consequences if Putin disagreed to stop the war after their meeting at Alaska, Trump replied, “Yes, they will.”
Asked if these “serious consequences” would be sanctions or tariffs, Donald Trump said, “I don’t have to say. They will have very serious consequences.”
Another meeting with green? Trump matches
The President said that Alaska meeting between the two leaders was focused on the “table settings” for quick viewing, including green, if his meeting with Putin is successful.
“If the first one is fine, we will have a quick second,” Trump said.
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“I would like to do it almost immediately and have a quick second meeting between President Putin and the President Zelena and me if they wanted to have me there.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexei Fadeev said earlier that Moscow’s attitude has not changed since last year.
As conditions for the ceasefire and the beginning of the conversations, Putin demanded that Ukraine to withdraw forces from the four regions that Russia declared to its own, but fully control and formally gives up plans to join NATO.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that Trump was “very clear” that the United States wanted to achieve a ceasefire at the summit. Macron spoke after a virtual meeting between Trump, Zlenic and other European leaders.
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Trump said that any big deal could include land swaps and that Zelena and Putin could meet more, or could meet both leaders.
“There is a very good chance that we will have a second meeting that will be more productive than the first, because the first is to find out where we are and what we are doing,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “It will be a very important meeting, but it will determine the table for the second meeting.”
(With the entry from agencies)
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