President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached an agreement to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Still, Ukraine and NATO are “going to have to agree,” Trump stated, noting that “there’s no deal until there’s a deal,” and “it’s ultimately up to them.”
This comes after a three-hour-long meeting between President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, and their Russian counterparts.
” I would like to hope that the agreement we’ve reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine,” Putin told reporters following his meeting with President Trump at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.
“We expect that Kiev and European capitals will perceive that constructively and that they will not throw a wrench in the works”
The two leaders spoke for approximately twelve minutes and did not take any questions.
Details of the agreement are still not known publicly.
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Putin: I would like to hope that the agreement we’ve reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine.
We expect that Kiev and European capitals will perceive that constructively and that they will not throw a wrench in the works, it will not make any attempts to use some backroom dealings to conduct provocations to torpedo the nascent progress.
President Trump told reporters, “There’s no deal until there’s a deal. I will call up NATO in a little while. I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate, and I’ll, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell him about today’s meeting.”
He continued, “It’s ultimately up to them. They’re going to have to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of the great people from the Trump administration, who have come here, Scott and John Ratcliffe, thank you very much.”
“We really made some great progress today. I’ve always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir. We had many, many tough meetings, good meetings. We were interfered with by the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. That made it a little bit tougher to deal with, but he understood it.”
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