The American elected president Donald Trump said that an organized assembly between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, the Republican did not offer any calendar for discussions between the two leaders.
“He’s going to meet and we’re creating him,” Trump said in remarks in front of a caucus with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday.
“President Putin will meet. He said even publicly and we have to approve this war with her. It’s a bloody waste,” Trump said of the Russia-Ukraine War.
The Kremlin said Friday that Putin opens up to Trump and that Moscow had no previous conditions to organize the meeting.
“The president has declared his openness to playing with foreign leaders, adding the president of the United States, adding Donald Trump,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The Kremlin welcomed Trump’s preference to resolve the upheaval dialogue,” Peskov said.
“No conditions are required. What is required is mutual desire and political will to solve problems through dialogue,” he told reporters in a daily briefing.
The American president-elect made his statement on the assembly with Putin just a week and a paper before taking office, following promises of his crusade to bring peace to Ukraine, at war for nearly 3 years after Russia’s giant-scale invasion in February 2022.
Trump has never made concrete proposals for a high fire or a peace agreement. But he introduced proposals to put an end to war with his advisors, which includes the notable giant portions of Ukraine in Russia in the predictable future.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Trump could be decisive in the outcome of the 34-month-old war with Russia and help stop Putin.
In an interview with the correspondent of the Sky News leader, Stuart Ramsay, published on November 29, Zelenskyy said that the “hot phase” of the war can end if NATO had security promises for the role of Ukraine lately under that of kyiv.
Zelenskyy added that the return of the occupied land through Russia at this time can be negotiated diplomatically later.
But Trump has made fun of Zelenskyy as a “seller”, and has caused fear among allies through rarely criticizing Putin.
On Tuesday, he also told reporters he sympathised with the Russian position that Ukraine should not be part of NATO.
“A giant component of the challenge is that Russia, for many years, long before Putin said:” You may never have NATO with Ukraine. “Now they have said it. I was, as it is written in stone,” he said.
“And somewhere along the line, [outgoing President Joe] Biden said, ‘No. they deserve to be able to join NATO. ” Well, then Russia has someone at its door, and I can sense their emotions about it. “
Trump has also often criticised the large amount of military aid the US has sent to Kyiv.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the United States under Democratic President Joe Biden has committed more than $ 175 billion in help to Ukraine, adding more than $ 60 billion in security assistance.
However, it is uncertain if the aid will continue at that pace under Trump, who has said he wants to bring the war to a swift end.
Trump has also persistently complained that Washington’s NATO members spend enough in defense and advised that the United States can review their commitment to the Army Alliance unless they accumulate their expenses.
Most European members have recently accumulate their expenses to 2% of the gross domestic product, the minimum recommendation of existing NATO.
However, Trump demanded a significant hike on Tuesday, calling for spending of 5 percent.