US President Donald Trump said he does not want to spend with the Russian dictator A futile meeting with Vladimir Putin. He made the statement to reporters at the White House.
"I don't want to have a pointless meeting. I don't want to waste time, so we'll see what happens," the White House chief of staff said.
He recalled that many major agreements, peace agreements, have already been concluded, in addition to this one. Trump again shared statistics that in the war in Ukraine, losses on both sides per week range from 5,000 to 7,000 soldiers.
"So we'll see what happens. We haven't made a decision yet," Trump added.
The US president also said that he had a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he assured him that India was not going to buy a lot of oil from Russia.
"He wants the war between Ukraine and Russia to end as badly as I do. They won't buy a lot of oil. They've cut it and they're continuing to cut it," the American leader said.
Trump-Zelensky meeting: latest news
UNIAN previously reported that a European diplomat briefed on the meeting told the NYT that the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington was not as productive as expected. It is noted that Moscow continues to resist attempts to resolve the war diplomatically, and the American leader refuses to directly blame Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. According to the European diplomat, the last Zelensky's meeting with Trump did not lead to a rollback in the issue of U.S. support for Ukraine. However, he added that no significant progress was achieved during the meeting.
We also wrote that European countries, together with Ukraine, develop a 12-point plan end of a full-scale war along the current front line. Thus, they reject the demands of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to the head of the White House regarding the surrender of Kyiv and the transfer of territories in exchange for a peace agreement. It is indicated that the implementation of the proposed plan will be supervised by a peace council chaired by US President Donald Trump.
