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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signalled that he is open to having a trilateral meeting with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to negotiate end to the Russia-Ukraine war
Ukrainian President Trump reiterated his belief that he is best positioned to resolve the war (Image: Mandel NGAN/AFP)
American President Donald Trump on Monday said like Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy also wants to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump said this war is going to end as both Putin and Zelenskyy want the same outcome, and he will talk to the Russian leader right after this meeting at the White House.
“This war is going to end, this gentleman (Zelenskyy) wants to end this war, Putin wants to end the war,” Trump said, sitting alongside Zelensky at the White House.
Zelenskyy has signalled that he is open to having a trilateral meeting with Trump and Putin to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. “We need to stop this war…we need support from the US and Europe,” he said.
Trump said the three leaders will hold a trilateral if everything goes well. He said there is a chance to end this war. “Today’s meeting is very important. There’s a reasonable chance for ending the war,” he said. “Putin is expecting my call after this…there may or may not be a trilateral. If there’s none, the fighting continues.”
Trump, however, rejected the need for an urgent Ukraine ceasefire and repeated his view that it was not necessary to end the war. He said the US will be “involved” in Ukraine’s future security. This position seems to be more in line with Putin’s who he met last week.
“I don’t think you need a ceasefire. I know that it might be good to have, but I can also understand strategically why one country or the other wouldn’t want it. You have a ceasefire and they rebuild and rebuild and rebuild and you know maybe they don’t want that,” he said.
Zelenskyy thanked Trump for hosting the talks, which will be expanded to include European leaders later in the day. “Thank you for (the) invitation and thank you very much for your efforts, personal efforts to stop killings and stop this war,” he said.
He said he was open to holding an election in safe circumstances if the war with Russia comes to an end. “We need to work in parliament because during the war you can’t have elections,” he said, adding that it needed to be possible for people to have a democratic, open, legal election that are currently suspended under martial law.
(With agency inputs)
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