Trump and Putin agree to start “immediately” negotiations on Ukraine

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have held a long telephone conversation on Wednesday in which they have addressed the Ukraine War. The American has pointed out that Putin agrees to “start negotiations immediately.”

“As we have agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths in the war with Russia/Ukraine,” Trump said in a statement. “We have agreed to work together, including visits to both countries. We have also agreed that our respective teams begin the negotiations immediately. We will start calling the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, to inform him of the conversation. ”

According to the information published by the Russian agency Tass, the spokesman of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, said that “Putin supports Trump's idea that the time has come to work together.” Russia launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. Putin unilaterally annexed several Ukrainian territories, unleashing the condemnation of the UN General Assembly and its general secretary, António Guterres.

According to Kremlin, the last contact between the two leaders was in 2020. Trump says he has asked the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, the National Security Advisor, Michael Walt, and the Ambassador and Sent SPECIAL Steve Witkoff Lead the negotiations.

Precisely Rubio has referred this Wednesday to future negotiations: “We want, as you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must begin by recognizing that returning to the borders of Ukraine prior to 2014 is an unrealistic objective. Pursuing this illusory objective will only prolong war and cause more suffering. ”