The US president, Donald Trump, said Monday that he has begun to “organize” a meeting between his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelenski, after celebrating today a meeting in Washington with the latter and several European leaders to try to achieve progress for peace in Ukraine.
“At the end of the meetings, I called President Putin and began to organize a meeting, in a place to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenski,” Trump wrote in a message on his social social network social in which he added that after that bilateral summit one to three bands would be held that would also include him.
“After that meeting, we will have a trilateral, in which the two presidents and myself would be,” he wrote.
Trump said that today he had “a very good meeting” at the White House with “distinguished guests” in reference to Zelenski, NATO general secretary Mark Rutte; the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen; the presidents of France and Finland, Emmanuel Macron and Alexander Stubb; the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Italy, Keir Starmer and Giorgia Meloni, and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“During the meeting, we address the security guarantees for Ukraine, which would be provided by the different European countries, in coordination with the United States. We are all very satisfied with the possibility of reaching peace between Russia and Ukraine,” said the New York tycoon on the meeting.
At the beginning of the Trump multilateral encounter, he insisted that today it was necessary to discuss the “exchange of territories”, a proposal launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his meeting last week in Alaska and that he would imply that Ukraine would have to yield to Russia the sovereignty of regions such as Donetsk and Lugansk.
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However, kyiv has said that this possible exchange considers intolerable and that technically is also unconstitutional according to the Ukrainian Magna Carta.
In any case, none of the participants in today’s meetings in the White House has spoken today about the possibility that the possible assignment of Ukrainian territories that the Russian army currently controls will be on the table.
Trump said the multilateral meeting ended with “more oval office meetings” after the call with Putin.
The New York Times has advanced in turn that conversations have prolonged more than expected and that all leaders have opted for dinner in the US presidential mansion.
With EFE information.
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