Russia is refusing to commit a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which President Trump has encouraged as a next step towards ending the war between his two countries.
Russian External Affairs Minister Sergei Lavarov on Tuesday argued that any peak among leaders should be prepared to step by step, slowly, start from expert level and then to undergo all necessary stages. ”
Lavarov, who attended the last week’s summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska, made a remake in an interview with state-operated television Rossia -24,
The Foreign Minister said that Kremlin is rejecting the conversation with Ukraine and said that the US President has invitation From Moscow to Russia. Trump was accompanied by State Secretary Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Vitcooff in Encourage.
Trump spoke to the White House with Putin on Monday, dialing Russian leader As he Washington was hosting Zelansky with seven European leaders, including the head of NATO. European officer and Zelansky were not in the room when Trump called Putin.
“I did not do it in front of him – I thought that President Putin would be derogatory. I would not do it, because he did not have the hottest relationship,” Trump Said On Tuesday on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends”.
The conversation between the US President and Putin lasted for about 40 minutes, said Trump said the call is “good” and he told the Russian leader that “we are going to set up a meeting with President Zelansky, and you and you will meet.”
“And then after that meeting, if everything works well, I will meet and we will wrap it,” the President said.
Yuri Usakov, Putin’s Foreign Policy Advisor, Said On Tuesday, Trump and Kremlin Head had a “quite clear and creative” conversation, “discussed the possibility of discovering opportunities to draw high ranked officials from both Ukraine and Russia in these direct conversations.
Trump, who is insisting on ending the three and a half year old Russia-Ukraine conflict Ongoing Providing air aid for Ukraine as part of safety guarantee. The President said that Washington would assist Europe in giving security guarantee for Kiev to strengthen the possible peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump said in an interview with Fox News, “We are ready to help them with things, in particular, perhaps, if you talk to the wind because we do not have the goods,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News.
The President has instructed his national security team to come up with a framework for these security guarantee that may be acceptable to ensure a permanent peace and to help end this war, “the press secretary of the White House Karolin Levitt told Reporter during Tuesday’s press briefing.
He said, “I will not tell anything as military options that the President is at their disposal, I will let them do so,” he said, Trump has called the US service members on the ground “definitely”.
