Trump says he will meet Putin in the Ukraine war “as quickly as possible,” amid low hopes for Ukraine talks, Russia.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates President Trump said on Friday that he is moving to direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as possible Putin chose to skip Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine In Türkiye.

“I think the time has come to do so,” Mr. Trump told reporters to visit a four -day visit to the Middle East. Later, he told reporters at Air Force One, who set out on the trip to Washington, that he might call Putin soon.

Mr. Trump said: “I will meet and I, and I think we will be dissolved or may not.” “At least we will know. If we don’t solve it, it will be very fun.”

The president repeated that he was not surprised by Putin’s decision to overcome the talks on Friday in Türkiye. Mr. Trump said that Putin did not want to go because he is not there.

The meetings between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul began on Friday, but there was no little expectation of any penetration as Putin sent a low level of level, which led to accusations from Ukraine and its European partners that Moscow was not really interested in a negotiating decision for war.

Mr. Trump said he will hold a meeting with Putin, “Once we can prepare it.”

“I would have already left here and go,” he said, noting that his daughter Tiffany gave birth to her first child. “I want to see my beautiful grandson.”

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyy agreed to participate in the conversations When Mr. Trump pressed the leaders to find a solution to the war, which has continued since Russia’s invasion in February 2022 on a large scale for Ukraine. But Putin refused to call for a face -to -face meeting with Zelenskyy.

Mr. Trump pressed both sides to quickly reach an agreement to end the war. Zelenskyy has agreed to an American plan for an initial stop for 30 days of hostilities, but Russia has not signed it and continued to strike at goals inside Ukraine.

“He didn’t go, and I understand it,” said Mr. Trump on Friday by Putin’s decision to overcome the talks in Istanbul. “We will accomplish it. We must accomplish it. Five thousand young men are killed every week, and we will accomplish it.”

The US President told the correspondents on Thursday that a meeting between him and Putin was decisive to break the deadline.

Mr. Trump said: “I don’t think anything will happen, whether you like it or not, until he and I meet.” “But we will have to solve it because many people die.”

Speaking to journalists in Moscow on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that any meeting between Putin and Mr. Trump should be “well prepared”, but he said that such a meeting was already necessary in the view of Russia, where “a serious conversation on international issues, including the Ukrainian crisis, said.”

If the talks in Istanbul fail to make any progress, Zelinski said on Friday that there should be a “strong reaction”, as it will be clear, in his opinion, that Russia does not care about any interest in ending the war.