“I really hope to be able to meet President Putin soon to end that war. That doesn’t come from an economic standpoint or anything else. It comes from the standpoint of millions of lives being wasted. That’s it.” “It’s a massacre. We really have to stop that war,” President Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) via video connection from the White House on January 23, according to Reuters.
Afterwards, the leader told reporters at the White House that he was ready to meet President Putin as soon as possible to end the war.
Russia spoke out after an ‘ultimatum’ from Mr. Trump demanding Moscow reach an agreement with Ukraine
“From what I heard, Mr. Putin wants to meet me and we will go as soon as possible. I want to meet immediately. Every day we don’t meet, soldiers are being killed on the battlefield,” President Trump speak.
During the election, Mr. Trump said many times that he would bring about an agreement to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine before taking office or on his first day of work. However, his advisers now admit it will take months to resolve the conflict.
President Donald Trump said he wanted to meet President Vladimir Putin immediately
This week, the US leader threatened to impose a heavy embargo on Russia and impose import taxes on Russian goods if the country does not close an agreement to end the conflict.
On January 23, he said he wanted to work with Russia on reducing the number of nuclear weapons but also wanted China to participate. “We want to see denuclearization and President Putin really likes the idea of nuclear reduction. China must also follow suit,” President Trump said.
The Kremlin has not commented on Mr. Trump’s new statements, but about the tax warning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was nothing new, according to AFP. Mr. Peskov reiterated that President Trump also often used the embargo during his first term and said that Mr. Trump “liked that method”.
“We are still ready to dialogue on the basis of equality and mutual respect,” Mr. Peskov said, adding that he has not received a signal for dialogue from the US side.
