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Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Russian person Vladimir Putin wanted to conscionable and that a rendezvous betwixt the brace was being arranged.
He made the connection conscionable a week and a fractional earlier taking office, pursuing promises during his run to bring bid to Ukraine, which has been nether Russian penetration since February 2022.
“He wants to meet, and we’re mounting it up,“ Trump said astatine a gathering with Republican governors astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Palm Beach, Florida.
“President Putin wants to meet, he’s said that adjacent publicly, and we person to get that warfare implicit with, that’s a bloody mess.”
Trump has ne'er made immoderate factual proposals for a ceasefire oregon bid deal, and has often criticized the ample magnitude of subject assistance the United States has sent to Kyiv.
Trump has besides often mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arsenic a “salesman,“ portion raising eyebrows successful Washington by seldom criticizing Putin -- and adjacent speaking admiringly of the Kremlin leader.
In summation to criticizing the monolithic subject assistance sent to Ukraine nether President Joe Biden, Trump has raised doubts implicit continued US engagement successful the Western subject confederation NATO.
The United States nether Biden has been Ukraine's biggest wartime backer, providing subject assistance worthy much than $65 cardinal since February 2022.
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