President Donald Trump, after a roughly three-hour summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, confirmed that there was significant progress made on the agenda of getting the killing in the Ukraine war halted, but it’s not completed. Yet.
“There’s no deal until there’s a deal,” Trump confirmed.
And he said his next work is to “call up NATO,” call other people, call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to talk with him about the issues at hand.
Trump called it a “productive” meeting and said there were “many, many” points of agreement.
“We haven’t quite got there yet,” on others.
“We made some headway,” he said. “We made some great headway today. It was an extremely productive meeting with many points agreed to. Very few left.”
He noted the Russiagate collusion conspiracy theory, created and pushed by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others in the Obama administration, was a distraction and created headwinds for the work now a hand.
Trump, who repeatedly has charged that had he been president back in 2022 when the Russian-Ukraine war started, it likely would not have happened.
Putin, whose comments were interpreted from Russian, said that was so.
Through the interpreter, he noted Trump’s claims, and said, “I am quite sure it would indeed be so.” He said he and Trump have “built a very trustworthy contact.”
Trump said, “We didn’t get there but we have a very good chance of getting there.”
And “there” would be the end of the deaths of thousands of people a week in the war.
Putin cited the long history of America-Russian cooperation, such as during World War II, when pilots from both countries risked their lives “for the common good,” he said.
He noted the “terrible wound” the war has created for both Russia and Ukraine, which some from “the same roots,” he said.
The points of agreement on Friday “bring us closer to that goal,” he said.
No details were discussed.
Trump had said before the summit that if things went poorly, he might very well walk away, as he is so tired of the death tolls from the war.
Instead, the two held a joint news conference, and when Trump promised another meeting soon, Putin responded with, next time, in Moscow.
President Trump announces major progress made during peace summit with Putin:
“I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many, many points that we agreed on… There’s no deal until there’s a deal… We really made some great progress.”
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