President Trump said on Saturday lack of progress The direction of peace between Russia and Ukraine amid more than three years of war is “very disappointing”.
The president has attempted to chart a path to peace since the beginning of his second administration after pledging during the campaign to end the war in one day. Trump had previously planned to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks, but canceled it. Saying He did not want it to be a “waste of time”.
“I’m not going to waste my time. I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin but this has been very disappointing. I thought this would have happened before there was peace in the Middle East,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to Malaysia on Saturday.
He said, “We have Azerbaijan, Armenia – it was very hard. In fact, Putin told me on the phone, he said, ‘Boy, it was wonderful’ because everyone tried to get it done and they couldn’t. I got it done.”
Trump and his allies had advocated for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize. intervention in international conflictHowever, the implementation of the US-arranged ceasefire in Gaza faces uncertainty as Hamas has refused to disarm.
Hope of ending the conflict Potential impact in Ukraine after Trump sanctions imposed on Russian oil companies earlier this week.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, vice chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said, “The United States is our enemy, and their talkative ‘peacemaker’ has now fully adopted the path of war against Russia.” wrote in a telegram Post.
He added, “Of course, people will say he couldn’t have done anything else, he was pressured in Congress, etc. That doesn’t change the main thing: The decisions taken are an act of war against Russia. And now Trump has aligned himself with a completely paranoid Europe.”
Trump has rejected Kremlin criticism of imposing sanctions and said Russia’s “hatred” of Ukraine has posed a significant obstacle to progress.
“I can say that almost every deal I’ve made, I thought would be tougher than the one with Russia and Ukraine, but it didn’t work out that way. There’s a lot of hatred between the two,” Trump said Saturday.
He later said he would encourage Chinese President Xi Jinping to scale back Russian oil purchases in an effort to influence an end to the war in Eastern Europe.
Trump told reporters, “You probably saw today, China is significantly cutting back its purchases of Russian oil and India is cutting back completely. And we have imposed sanctions.”
