US President Donald Trump disclosed on Wednesday that he intends to meet President Vladimir Putin “at some point.”
He told reporters, “At some point, We’ll have to see. I mean, we have to get there right now. We got to get there.”
According to White House sources, President Trump is scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia in May. Reporters asked Trump whether he plans to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia.
In this context, he touched upon the topic of the conflict in Ukraine, regretting that hostilities are claiming numerous lives and calling for their cessation. “We got to get there fast,” he emphasized.
“I want to see Russia and Ukraine make a deal. They got to make a deal. I hope we’re going to make a deal with Russia and Ukraine,” he added.
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Putin supports the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine but some concerns that are now unresolved have to be addressed first.
Trump, Putin want Zelenskyy out
The US and Russian leaders are united in their distrust of Zelenskyy, who won the 2019 presidential vote as a fresh-faced comic with no political experience.
“We have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, where the leader in Ukraine, I hate to say it, but he’s down at four percent approval rating,” Trump claimed on February 19.
Five days later, Putin backed Trump’s claim.
“It actually doesn’t matter how many percent [Zelenskyy] has, four or whatever. What’s important is that his rating, according to our data, is exactly twice as low as his possible political rival,” Putin said, referring to Valerii Zaluzhnyii, Ukraine’s former top general, who Zelenskyy fired last year.