Donald Trump, who has held the suspense in recent days in an interview with Vladimir Putin, said Friday, May 16 that he would see the Russian president “as soon as possible to organize a meeting.
“I was going to do it, I would be ready from here to go,” said the US president of the United Arab Emirates, where he closes his tour in the Gulf. However, he added that he returned well to the United States as planned and that he was particularly delighted to meet the child who his daughter Tiffany Trump has just given birth.
For its part, Kremlin judged that a meeting on Ukraine among Russian and American presidents is “certainly necessary.” “Such meeting is certainly necessary,” said Russian presidency spokesman Dmitri Peskov, during his daily informative session.
“Contacts between Presidents Putin and Trump are extremely important in the context of the regulation of the Ukrainian crisis,” he added.
“Nothing will happen”
The day before, Donald Trump had assured that “nothing would happen” in Ukraine whenever he has not met his Russian counterpart. The US president had previously suggested that he would join the current discussions in Türkiye about a result of the conflict in Ukraine if Vladimir Putin were there, as stated by the Ukrainian head of state Volodyr Zelensky.
However, the Russian leader did not make the trip to Istanbul, where the first direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were held this Friday during the first weeks of the Russian invasion in 2022.
In February, shortly after his return to the White House, Donald Trump had broken dramatically with the isolation in which the United States had kept Russia since the beginning of the conflict, through a long telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin.
The US president, who believes that he had a privileged relationship with his Russian counterpart, however, recently allowed some signs of frustration to unravel -while his relations with Volodymyr Zelensky seem to have been heated a bit. The Republican billionaire was a lot to end the conflict in Ukraine in the blink of an eye, once again became president. The discussions with a view to a high fire are not surprised, much more difficult than it had planned.
Source: BFM TV
