The president of the United States, Donald Trump, will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday at a possible pivot point in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and an opportunity for Trump to continue reorienting the US foreign policy.
Trump revealed the next conversation to journalists while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One on Sunday night, while Kremlin confirmed Putin's participation on Monday morning.
“We will see if we have something to announce maybe for Tuesday. I will talk to President Putin on Tuesday, ”said Trump. “A lot of work has been done during the weekend. We want to see if we can put an end to that war. “
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Monday morning the plans so that the two leaders speak on Tuesday, but refused to give details, saying that “we never get ahead” and “the content of conversations between two presidents is not subject to any previous discussion.”
European allies distrust Trump's affinity by Putin and his hard line position towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who faced strong criticism when he visited the Oval office just over two weeks ago.
Although Russia failed in its initial objective to overthrow Ukraine with its invasion three years ago, it still controls great stripes of the country.
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Trump said land and energy plants are part of the conversation about bringing war.
“We will be talking about earth. We will talk about electric power plants, “he said, a process that described as” dividing certain assets. “
Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, recently visited Moscow last week to advance negotiations.
Russia illegally attached four Ukrainian regions after launching its large -scale Ukraine invasion in 2022, the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the East and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in the southeast of the country, but do not completely control any of the four. Last year, Putin listed the withdrawal of kyiv's troops from the four regions as one of the peace demands.
In 2014, the Kremlin also attached Crimea de Ukrania.
In the busy part of the Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow controls the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe. The plant has been repeatedly trapped in the crossfire from the invasion. The International Atomic Energy Agency, an UN agency, has often expressed an alarm on the plant in the middle of fears of a possible nuclear catastrophe.
During his conversation with journalists on Air Force One, Trump said he was moving forward with his tariff plans on April 2 despite the recent interruptions in the stock market and nervousness for economic impact.
“April 2 is a liberating day for our country,” he said. “We are recovering part of the richness that the very, very silly presidents gave away because they had no idea what they were doing.”
Trump has occasionally changed course in some rates plans, as with Mexico, but said he had no intention of doing so when it comes to reciprocal tariffs.
“They charge and charge them,” he said. “Then, in addition to that, in cars, in steel, in aluminum, we will have some additional rates.”
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