President Trump said the tone and spirit of his two telephone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday about the War in Ukraine They were “excellent”, and Russia and Ukraine “would immediately begin the negotiations towards a high fire.”
Mr. Trump spoke with Ukrainian President VolodyYMyr ZenskyyThe Ukrainian president said in a publication on social networks, and Zenskyy was also talking on the phone for the call with NATO leaders after Mr. Trump’s call with Putin, although the White House has not yet published details of that conversation.
The president also indicated that Pope Leo XIV has expressed interest in organizing negotiations, and told reporters Monday afternoon that “some progress has been made.” When asked if he believes that Putin wants peace, Mr. Trump said: “I do” and asked if he trusts in Putin, Trump replied: “I do.”
But Putin has given little indication that he is anxious for a high fire or the end of the war it was. Trump warned that the United States could still retire from attempts to negotiate the end of the war.
“Very great egos involved, I say,” Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon. “Great egos involved. But I think something is going to happen. And if not, simply back and will have to move forward. Again, this was a European situation.”
“I said:” It’s time, you have to stop this. “And I think he hears stop,” Mr. Trump told reporters, adding that he could say if Putin wanted to stop.
In an event on Monday night, Trump said: “We had a good talk, and I think they are making progress.”
Trump also said in a statement that Russia “wants to do a large -scale trade with the United States when this catastrophic” Bloodbath “ends, and” there is a great opportunity for Russia in Russia to be a large creative amount of works and wealth. ”
When asked before the call about the possibility of imposing secondary sanctions on Russia, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that everything is on the table, although the president did not mention sanctions in his statement.
Zenskyy issued a legal statement on social networks after his call with Mr. Trump’s leaders and NATO, saying that if Russia is not “ready to stop the murders, there must be stronger sanctions.” He also urged the United States not to get away from Ukraine and conversations.
“It is crucial for all of us that the United States does not distance from conversations and the search for peace, because the only one that benefits from that is Putin,” Zenskyy wrote, and added that “Ukraine has always Peay for Pace for Peay for Peay for Peay for Peay for Peay for Pace for Pace for Peay for Peay for Peay for Pace.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined Mr. Trump’s call with Putin, said State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce. Rubio said in a Interview that was broadcast on Sunday In “Fac The Nation Margaret Brennan” so that a great advance could only be possible if Trump and Putin had “a direct conversation.
Mr. Trump and Putin spoke for the last time In March.
On Saturday, Trump said he and Putin would discuss the “blood bath” in Ukraine. In Rome, Vice President JD Vance with Sunday with Zenskyy in his first face to face from his explosive February Oval Office meeting.
Vance told journalists on Monday that he had spoken with Mr. Trump before the call and said he thought the president would say that there would be “economic benefits to defrost relations between Russia and the rest of the world, but will not get those benefits.”
Vance said the president would press Putin for the death of innocent people caused by the Russians and would say: “Then, if you are willing to stop the murder, the United States is willing to be a partner for peace.”
On Friday, Russia and Ukraine conversed delegation of lower level in Istanbul attended by the envoy of the White House Steve Wikoff. The conversations in Istanbul separated after less than two hours, although both parties accepted each exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war, cordination to official delegations.
Camilla Schick contributed to this report.