President Trump, in a statement to the media, declared that a meeting between him and Putin could take place this month.
When asked whether he supports the deployment of European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, President Donald Trump said he “wouldn’t oppose it at all.”
“If they want to do this, that’s fine. I’m for it. If they want to do it, I think it would be good,” he told reporters, noting that France and the United Kingdom have expressed openness to this idea.
The United States, he suggested, would not participate “because we’re too far away.”
The president went on to say that “no one has asked me” to remove all U.S. troops from Europe if a peace deal were reached, “so I don’t think we would have to do that.”
He continued, “I wouldn’t want to do that. But that issue has never been raised.”
Trump described his talks with Russian officials on Tuesday as “very good,” adding that the U.S. “wants to do something.”
“They want to stop the wild barbarism,” he said.
“Both Russia and Ukraine are losing thousands and thousands of soldiers, and many people are being killed as well.”
The United States and Russia agreed on four principles after discussions that lasted more than four hours in Saudi Arabia, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, including appointing a high-level team to help “negotiate and work toward ending the conflict in Ukraine” in a way that “is acceptable to all parties involved.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was not invited to the talks, said Ukraine will not “surrender to Russia’s ultimatums” and earlier stated he would refuse to sign any deal negotiated without Kyiv’s involvement.
