Trump was speaking shortly after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed to have agreed with the US leader a five-point strategy for his talks with Putin. Trump, they said, had agreed that Ukraine must be at the table for any future meetings with Putin, that a ceasefire must be a first step ahead of any fuller negotiations, and that recognising Russian-occupied territory was not on the table regardless of Trump’s talk earlier this week about “land-swapping” that he argued would benefit both countries.
Keir Starmer co-chairs a videoconference call with European leaders on Ukraine in London on Wednesday (Photo: Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP)Merz characterised the call as “a truly exceptionally constructive and good conversation”. Trump did not go that far, and provided absolutely no details to reporters about any promises that he may have made. But he did indicate that he expects swift action from Putin to stand down militarily in Ukraine.
Trump indicated a determination to try and broker a conversation between Zelensky and Putin. “If the first one goes ok”, he said of Friday’s talks with Putin, “we’ll have a quick second one. I would like to do it almost immediately”. He indicated that he would be willing to broker that conversation, but only “if they’d like to have me there”. Putin’s aides insisted last week that any meeting with Zelensky was still “miles away”.
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Amid reports that Russia launched a recent hacking attack that targeted a computer system containing US federal court records, Trump shrugged his shoulders when asked whether he would raise the issue with Putin. “I guess I could, but are you surprised?”, he asked the reporter who raised the issue. “They hack in, that’s what they do. They’re good at it…we’re actually better at it”, the President claimed.
As the President wrapped up, he renewed his promise to brief Zelensky and European leaders as soon his summit with Putin is over. He said the meeting with Putin would help the world “find out where we are, and what we’re doing”. The governments in Kyiv and several European capitals can now only watch and wait, and hope that their voices in Trump’s ear on Wednesday morning are still top-of-mind when he welcomes Putin to Alaska on Friday.
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