NATO Secretary -General Trump will test Putin, “at Friday meeting

NATO Secretary -General Mark Roti said on Sunday that President Trump will test, “Russian President Vladimir Putin is in his face as a face. Friday meeting was appointedWhile world leaders are pressuring to stop the shooting of Russia’s war with Ukraine.

“On Friday, it is important to see how dangerous Putin, and the only one that can do so is President Trump,” Root said in “Confronting the nation with Margaret Brennan.

Mr. Trump announced the “very expected” summit with Putin in A. mail In fact, social in late last week, saying that the leaders are scheduled to meet on Friday in Alaska.

The US President has expressed his frustration with Putin in recent weeks, as Russia has bombed Ukraine with drones and missile attacks, including what Ukraine described as the largest such attacks since the invasion began in February 2022. Putin met In Moscow, the two countries began proposing openness to a meeting between presidents.

Mr. Trump told reporters late last week that Putin and Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski wanted to “see peace.” Although the White House had indicated earlier this week that Mr. Trump is open to the meeting with both Putin and Zellinski, Mr. Trump said he was planning to “start with Russia”, while this adds “we have a shot” holding a triple meeting with Putin and Zelinski. Two sources told CBS News on Saturday that Mr. Trump is still ready to meet with Zeilinsky and Putin, but the meeting is still duo, as Putin requested.

Root said, whether he was comfortable with being Ukraine excluded from these negotiations on Friday, when it comes to discussing land, ensuring security, peace talks and what happens after that, “Ukraine must be – and will participate -“

“It is very important for a meeting to happen. This will not be the last saying in this,” Root said. “Of course, Ukraine should participate in Europe, but it is important that the next stage of this process begin, which makes pressure on the Russians, just as President Trump does over the past six months.”

Root argued that Mr. Trump “mainly broke the stalemate” by starting a dialogue with Putin earlier this year, describing it as a “decisive” development.

He generally praised Mr. Trump’s strategy. Roti described the “Great NATO Summit” under the leadership of the American President, with obligations for each member country to raise defense spending to 5 % of GDP, in a sign of Russia “We Jadoun”. Roti, Mr. Trump, is attributed to allow us Weapons to be delivered In Ukraine, which said “flooding gates”, while he praised the planned secondary sanctions on some of the largest buyers of Russian oil and gas, including India.

The Secretary -General said that the delivery processes coordinated from NATO will continue regardless of what is happening at the summit of Friday, with a focus on its commitment to “ensuring that Ukraine has what needs to be staying in the fighting and be in the best possible position” when the time for negotiations for a ceasefire is time.

Regarding the start of these negotiations, Root said on Friday, “Is President Trump make sure that Putin is serious.”

“If it is not, it will stop there,” said Root. “If it is serious, then on Friday, upward, the process will continue – Ukraine is involved, and the Europeans are involved.”

It is still unclear what the ceasefire is eventually or the peace agreement, as Russia has requested that Ukraine be waived parts of eastern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces – which Ukraine rejected. Last week, Mr. Trump said any deal that is likely to include “some land swap.”

On Sunday, Roti said that Russia’s control of Ukrainian lands can never be accepted “in the legal sense”, but negotiations can cover “how to deal with the realistic situation that the Russians hold, at this moment, the Ukrainian lands.”

The Ukraine Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Marcarova, also appeared on “confronting the nation” on Sunday, and said that “all Ukraine prayed to be effective President Trump and has great results.”

“We want Putin to stop,” said Marcarova. “We really hope that this batch of President Trump and the packages of sanctions on the table and the secondary sanctions that are already implemented against those who help Russia will convince President Putin that this is the time to finally stop his aggression.”

Marcarova said that Zelinski is ready to participate in future meetings as needed, but he did not criticize the fact that the Alaska meeting will only offer American and Russian leaders, saying: “Sometimes diplomacy requires various formats.”

However, others expressed concern about the planned meeting between Mr. Trump and Putin. “I hope we will receive something of this,” the saying of the administration “should have extracted something on this visit.”

“Putin is a war criminal,” Kelly said. “This is not a force to allow him to fly to the United States, land here, and negotiate with our president.”

Jennifer Jacobs

He contributed to this report.