American president, Donald Trump, will speak on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a possible pivot point in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and an opportunity for Trump to continue to redirect American foreign policy.
Trump revealed the upcoming conversation to journalists while stealing from Florida to Washington on Air Force One Sunday evening, while the Kremlin confirmed Putin’s participation on Monday morning.
“We will see if we have something to announce maybe on Tuesday. I will speak to President Putin on Tuesday, ”said Trump. “Lots of work was done this weekend. We want to see if we can end this war. »»
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed the plans for the two leaders on Tuesday morning on Monday morning, but refused to give details, saying that “we must never have ahead of events” and “the content of the conversations between two presidents is not subject to any previous discussion”.
European allies are wary of Trump’s affinity for Putin and his hard position towards the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who faced strong criticism when he visited the oval office a little more than two weeks ago.
Although Russia failed with its initial objective of overthrowing Ukraine with its invasion three years ago, it still controls large expanses of the country.
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Trump said the land and power plants were part of the conversation around the war.
“We will talk about land. We will talk about power plants, “he said, a process he described as” dividing certain assets “.
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff recently visited Moscow last week to advance negotiations.
Russia illegally annexed four Ukrainian regions after launching its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 – the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east and the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south -east of the country – but does not completely control any of the four. Last year, Putin listed kyiv’s withdrawal from the troops from the four regions as one of the peace requests.
In 2014, the Kremlin also annexed Ukraine Crimea.
In the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow controls the Zaporizhzhia – the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. The plant has been taken several times in the cross fires since the invasion. The International Atomic Energy Agency, a United Nations organization, has often expressed an alarm about the plant in the midst of fears of a potential nuclear disaster.
During his conversation with journalists on Air Force One, Trump said that he was advancing his pricing plans on April 2 despite the recent disruptions on the stock market and the nervousness of the economic impact.
“April 2 is a liberating day for our country,” he said. “We recover part of the wealth that the very, very stupid presidents gave because they had no idea what they were doing.”
Trump has sometimes changed course on certain price plans, as with Mexico, but he said that he did not intend to do it with regard to reciprocal rates.
“They charge us and we will charge them,” he said. “Then, in addition to that, on cars, on steel, in aluminum, we will have additional prices.”
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