President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a pair of high-stakes meetings next week in order to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, Trump said on Truth Social Thursday.
Trump will meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary after an initial round of negotiations between Russian advisors and U.S. diplomats led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio next week, the president said in his post. Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday to discuss the war and his conversation with Putin.
“The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined,” Trump said in his post. “President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.”
“President Zelenskyy and I will be meeting tomorrow, in the Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President Putin, and much more. I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation,” he wrote.
Putin congratulated Trump on the historic deal between Hamas and Israel, and thanked First Lady Melania Trump for her work on protecting children in Ukraine, the president said in his post.
Trump said Wednesday that India will stop buying Russian oil, a deal that the administration said was fueling the war effort in Ukraine.
The meeting will mark Putin’s first visit to any European Union member state since before the invasion of Ukraine, when he attended a summit in Germany on the subject of peace.
The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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