After meeting with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump announced this Thursday, October 16, that he will meet with his Russian counterpart in Budapest, Hungary.
This summit will take place after a “meeting of high-level advisors” from both countries that will take place “next week.” “The first meetings in the United States will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in collaboration with other people who will be designated,” explains the White House tenant, who specifies that “the location of the meeting has yet to be determined.”
The goal of a possible summit between the two leaders, according to Donald Trump: “to see if we can put an end to this ‘vile’ war between Russia and Ukraine.” The two presidents met in Alaska on August 15, the first meeting between a US and Russian leader since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
A “very productive” interview
This call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump comes just under a month after the American leader lamented that his Russian counterpart had “really let him down.” “I thought it would be easy because of my relationship with President Putin, but he really disappointed me. We’ll see how it ends,” he explained.
In a message published this Thursday night on his social network Truth Social, the American president describes his telephone interview with Vladimir Putin as “very productive.” Among the points discussed during this interview, “trade between Russia and the United States once the war with Ukraine is over” or the agreement signed between Israel and Hamas.
“President Putin congratulated me and the United States on the great achievement of peace in the Middle East, a dream that he said has been a dream for centuries,” Donald Trump wrote Thursday night.
He believes that this agreement “will contribute to our negotiations aimed at ending the war with Russia and Ukraine.”
After this interview with the master of the Kremlin, Donald Trump will receive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this Friday. A meeting during which the two leaders will “discuss” this phone call but also “many other issues.”
Among them could be the possible delivery of long-range American Tomahawk missiles, requested by Kyiv. Donald Trump has so far left doubts about his intentions. Ukraine “wants to attack, I will make a decision on that,” he said Wednesday. For his part, Vladimir Putin has already warned that the delivery of the Tomahawk would constitute “a new escalation” and would affect relations between Washington and Moscow.
Source: BFM TV
