WASHINGTON, Feb 7. US President Donald Trump said he plans to meet Volodymyr Zelensky next week, with Washington as a possible venue.
"I'll probably meet Zelensky next week and I'll probably talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin," the US leader said ahead of talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiiba at the White House. "Maybe [Zelensky] will meet [me] next week, whatever he wants, I'm here."
The US president seemed to be in favour of holding the talks on his home turf, adding that "they could be in Washington": "Well, I'm not going to Ukraine."
Trump did not specify when he might speak with Putin.
He reiterated that the Ukrainian crisis would never have happened if he had been president when it began.
Earlier, Trump said that hopefully a peace deal will be struck "sometime in the not too distant future".
On 14 June 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined the terms of a settlement in Ukraine at a meeting with the Foreign Ministry leadership. These conditions include the withdrawal of the Ukrainian army from Donbas and Novorossiya and Kiev's commitment not to join NATO. The rights, freedoms and interests of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine must also be fully protected. Russia considers it necessary to lift all Western sanctions against it and to establish Ukraine's status as a nuclear-weapon-free and nuclear-weapon-free country.
The Western media have begun to spread the view that the negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement should be conducted between Russia and the United States with the nominal participation of Kiev and without the participation of Europe.
TASS / gnews.cz
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