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President donald trump He said Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to negotiate a deal to end the war with Russia, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to meet soon.
Trump spoke to reporters after signing multiple executive orders Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office. When a reporter asked if Zelenskyy told him he was ready to negotiate a solution to the war with Russia, Trump provided confirmation.
“Yes, he is ready to negotiate a deal. He would like to stop this,” Trump said. “He’s someone who lost a lot of soldiers, and Russia too… Russia lost more soldiers. They lost 800,000. Would you say that’s a lot? I’d say that’s a lot.”
He was also asked whether sanctions on Russia would force Putin to negotiate.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with members of the Security Council at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Aleksey Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo)
“I don’t know, but I think I should make a deal,” Trump said.
Trump also told reporters that Chinese President Xi Jinping could influence the war between Russia and Ukraine since he has power over Russia. He explained that the two countries are great trading partners.
Russia, Trump noted, supplies a lot of energy to China, and the latter pays a lot of money to the former.
“I think they have a lot power over Russiaso I think Russia should want to make a deal,” Trump said. ” From what I hear, Putin would like to see me, and we will meet as soon as we can.”
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Former President Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower in New York City on September 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia DeMaree Nikhinson)
When he described The war in UkraineTrump said soldiers were being killed on a battlefield that “is like no battlefield since World War II.”
“Soldiers are being killed daily in numbers we haven’t seen in decades,” he said. “It would be nice to end that war. It’s a ridiculous war.”
Putin is reportedly worried about the state of his country’s economy as Trump returns to the Oval Office. According to a Reuters report citing multiple sources, Trump’s push to end the war in Ukraine only adds to Putin’s concerns.
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A Ukrainian National Police officer walks past a restaurant destroyed by a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 27, 2023. (Ukraine National Police via AP)
Throughout his campaign, Trump pushed to end global conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine War, which began with Putin’s 2022 invasion.
last month, Putin said He was ready to engage with Ukraine in possible talks with Trump to end the war and was in no condition to begin talks with Ukrainian authorities.
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“We have always said that we are ready for negotiations and compromises,” Putin said at the time, after saying that Russian forces, advancing along the entire front, were moving toward achieving their main objectives in Ukraine.
“In my opinion, soon there will be no one left who wants to fight. We are ready, but the other side must be ready for negotiations and compromises.”
Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
