STRAIGHT. War in Ukraine: after the call between Trump and Putin, a high fire always out of reach

Speaking from the White House after his call with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump said “believe” that the Russian president was ready to end the war in Ukraine.

“I think he wants to finish it,” said the president of the United States to journalists at the Oval office. “If I thought President Putin didn’t want to finish it, he wouldn’t even be talking about that.”

When asked about a possible withdrawal from the United States of negotiations, Donald Trump said yesterday “have some red lines” that “would make” discussions.

“But I am not going to say what it is because I think it would extract the discussions,” said the American leader.

“It is not the United States War, we are entangled in this war,” said the president of the United States.

Volodymyr Zelensky, who exchanged twice with Donald Trump yesterday, asked at night “more severe sanctions” against Russia that “pushes him towards real peace.”

“I reaffirmed to President Trump that Ukraine was ready for a high total and unconditional fire, as mentioned, particularly by the United States. It is important not to water this proposal,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky and the European kyiv allies, including Paris and Berlin, considered the “positively” offer of Pope Leo XIV of welcoming the conversations between Ukraine and Russia, according to the Italian government Giorgia Meloni to the Vatican.

“The availability of the Holy Father to welcome the conversations to the Vatican has been positively judged,” said the Italian leader in a press release.

“Ukraine is ready to negotiate directly with Russia, whatever the format that may succeed,” Volodymyr Zelensky wrote last night on his social networks, specifying “studying all possibilities” as conversations in Turkey, the Vatican or Switzerland.

“It is not necessary to convince Ukraine, and our representatives are ready to make real decisions during negotiations,” said the Ukrainian leader.

Hello and welcome to this direct. Yesterday, shortly after his call with Vladimir Putin, who lasted almost two hours, Donald Trump said the negotiations between kyiv and Moscow were going to “start immediately.”

“I think progress has been made,” said the US president of the White House, saying that he had “achieved something” during this call that, according to him, “it was very good.”

For his part, the Russian president did not agree with the struggle of the fight, but described the conversation as “useful.”

To the press, he added that Russia was ready to work with Ukraine in a “memorandum” on a “possible peace treaty” and stressed the need to “find commitments” in both parts of the conflict.