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President Trump said Thursday helium intends to conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin successful Hungary successful the coming weeks to sermon efforts to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.
Trump made the announcement pursuing a lengthy telephone telephone with Putin.
"At the decision of the call, we agreed that determination volition beryllium a gathering of our High Level Advisors, adjacent week. The United States’ archetypal meetings volition beryllium led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, unneurotic with assorted different people, to beryllium designated," Trump posted connected Truth Social. "A gathering determination is to beryllium determined.
"President Putin and I volition past conscionable successful an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to spot if we tin bring this 'inglorious' War, betwixt Russia and Ukraine, to an end," helium added.
Hungary is simply a subordinate of the NATO alliance, but it has faced disapproval successful caller years for antiauthoritarian backsliding nether President Viktor Orbán, who is simply a adjacent Trump ally.
Trump said helium and Putin besides discussed aboriginal commercialized betwixt the U.S. and Russia erstwhile the warfare successful Ukraine ends.
Russian forces invaded neighboring Ukraine successful February 2022 aft amassing troops adjacent the border.
The telephone telephone took spot the time earlier Trump is acceptable to big Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky astatine the White House.
"President Zelenskyy and I volition beryllium gathering tomorrow, successful the Oval Office, wherever we volition sermon my speech with President Putin, and overmuch more," Trump posted. "I judge large advancement was made with today’s telephone conversation."
Trump has grown progressively frustrated with Putin successful caller weeks pursuing their meeting successful Alaska in August. That gathering yielded nary factual advancement toward ending the war, and a projected gathering betwixt Putin and Zelensky has yet to materialize.
Trump has signaled successful caller days that the United States may send long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, which would let Ukrainian forces to onslaught subject targets heavy wrong Russia.
The Kremlin has warned the determination would escalate tensions betwixt Moscow and Washington.
Trump pledged during the 2024 run that helium would extremity the warfare successful Ukraine earlier helium adjacent took office. But helium has acknowledged the struggle has been much hard than expected to settle.
—Updated astatine 1:48 p.m. EDT
