US President Donald Trump said his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy might want to come to the US to meet with him, but “first he should get a (peace) deal”.
Asked if he expected Zelensky to visit, Trump said during Wednesday’s Press Gaggle on Air Force One: “…He’d love to come, but I think we should make a deal first. We’re having good talks… We won’t know for a while, but we’re making progress.”
Trump said he settled eight wars and considered the conflict in Ukraine to be one of the easier ones, but later realized it was different.
“We settled the right wars and I thought it would be one of the easier ones because of my relationship with President Putin. But this is probably one of the hardest because there’s a lot of hatred,” he said.
“People are starting to realize that it’s a good deal for both sides and they have to stop the war. They’re losing a lot of people, mostly soldiers…,” Trump added.
On the ‘Thanksgiving Deadline’ for a Ukraine-Russia peace plan, Trump said: “We’ll see what happens. They’ve set a date. The date will be sometime in the very near future… I don’t have a deadline. The only deadline for me is when it’s over. And I think everybody’s tired of fighting right now. They’re losing too many people.”
