Trump and Putin immediately start peace negotiations for Ukraine conflict

Trump and Putin immediately start peace negotiations for Ukraine conflict

President Donald Trump announced that negotiations to terminate the Ukraine War will begin immediately after a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday morning.

first conversation between Trump and Putin

The phone call, which has been the first known conversation between the two presidents since Trump's takeover in the last month, found one day after the release of an American detained in Russia . Employees of the Trump administration expressed hope that this exchange could be a sign of renewed efforts to terminate the conflict in Ukraine, which is about to go into the fourth year.

content of the conversation

In a summary of the conversation that was published on Truth Social, Trump said: "We spoke about Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the strength of the US dollar and various other topics." According to Kremlin, Trump and Putin spoke together for almost 90 minutes.

Trump's desire for conversations

Trump had signaled for weeks that he had the desire to speak to Putin to solve the conflict in Ukraine. "We have agreed to work closely together, including mutual visits to our countries. We have also decided that our respective teams will start negotiations immediately. We will talk to President Selenskyj from Ukraine to inform him about our conversation.

past of US Russia relationships

The predecessor of Trump, President Joe Biden, had not spoken to his Russian colleague for almost three years. The last US president who visited Russia was Barack Obama in 2013 when he took part in a G20 summit.

Comments by Trump's negotiators

Steve Witkoff, one of Trump's main negotiator in the conflict, referred to the release of the wrongly imprisoned American Marc Fogel as "a sign of the future of the war of Russia in Ukraine" on Wednesday. He added: "I think this is perhaps an indication of what the work relationship between President Trump and President Putin will look like in the future and what this could mean for the world as a whole and for future conflicts. I think they had a great friendship, and I think it will continue to exist now. This is a really good thing for the world."

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