Trump says his team is preparing a meeting with Putin

US President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday (Thursday) that his squad has begun preparing to conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “end” the warfare successful Ukraine.

“He wants america to meet, and we’ve started to acceptable it up,” Mr Trump said during a gathering with Republican authorities governors astatine his Mar-a-Lago residence successful Palm Beach, Florida.

“President Putin wants america to meet, helium has adjacent said truthful publicly, and we person to get this warfare (in Ukraine implicit with, which is simply a existent cyclone,” the tycoon added.

During his yearly unrecorded televised interview, Mr. Putin assured that helium was acceptable to conscionable with Mr. Trump “at immoderate time”.

“If we conscionable 1 time with President-elect Trump, I americium definite we volition person galore things to say” to each other, helium threw in.

Donald Trump, who volition instrumentality bureau connected January 20, often promised connected the run way that helium would extremity the warfare successful Ukraine wrong “24 hours” and has called for an “immediate ceasefire” and the resumption of Moscow-Kiev negotiations.

Europeans and Ukrainians person expressed concerns that it could unit Kyiv to marque large concessions and connection a geopolitical triumph to the Kremlin, portion nether outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden, Washington has been the main backer of the Ukrainian equipped forces since the penetration of Russian troops successful February 2022, providing them with much than $65 cardinal worthy of equipment.