Putin should make deal with Ukraine, Zelenskyy ready to negotiate: Trump on Russia-Ukraine war

Talking to reporters successful the Oval Office connected Thursday, the president said, “I deliberation helium (Putin) should marque a deal.” When asked if helium thinks that sanctions connected Russia volition unit Putin to negotiate, helium said, “I don’t know.” “Russia should privation to marque a deal.

Maybe they privation to marque a deal. I think, from what I hear, Putin would similar to spot me. And we’ll conscionable arsenic soon arsenic we can. I’d conscionable immediately. Soldiers are being killed connected the battlefield,” helium said.

“That battlefield is similar nary battlefield since World War II… and I person pictures that you don’t privation to see. Soldiers are being killed connected a regular ground astatine numbers that we haven’t seen successful decades. It would beryllium bully to extremity that war. It’s a ridiculous war,” the US president said.

In effect to different question, Trump said Ukraine is acceptable to marque a deal. “He’s (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) acceptable to negociate a deal. He’d similar to stop. He’s idiosyncratic that mislaid a batch of soldiers. So did Russia. Russia mislaid much soldiers, they mislaid 8,00,000 soldiers,” Trump added.

Called retired Russian President Putin by sanction successful the societal media station connected Wednesday, Trump argued that helium ever had a bully narration with the leader, but that it was clip to settee “this ridiculous War!” He besides warned that if determination was not a ceasefire woody soon, helium would “have nary different choice” but to enforce tariffs, taxes and sanctions connected “anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and assorted different participating countries.”