Trump to speak to Putin and Zellinski in a new peace offer

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Donald Trump said he would talk to Vladimir Putin and Voludmir Zelinski on Monday to end the “bloodbath” between the two countries, after the Russian president exceeded the peace talks he started with his Ukrainian counterpart.

Trump said on Saturday in a post on the social truth platform that the invitation with Putin will cover topics, including: “stopping the” bloodbath “, which is killed, on average, more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers per week, and trade.

He will then talk to Zelenskyy and “different NATO members”.

“We hope it will be a fruitful day, and the shooting will be stopped, and this war is very violent, a war that should never have occurred,” Trump said.

The statement came after Putin rejected Zelinski’s interview in Türkiye this week, despite the proposal of the meetings himself as the Russian leader continued to refuse to participate in other conditions.

Putin sent a low -level delegation instead, led by former Minister of Culture Vladimir Midinski.

The meeting, which was held on Friday, ended less than two hours without penetration. The two sides agreed to swap thousands of war prisoners, but they did not make any progress in the ceasefire.

On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, spoke to a call.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Rubio welcomed the exchange of prisoners and repeated the Trump administration’s message that “the United States is committed to achieving a permanent end of the war of Russia, Ukraine.”

“The comprehensive peace plan proposed by the United States determines the best way to move forward,” the statement said. “Al -Amin emphasized President Trump’s call for immediate shooting and ending violence.”

On Friday, Trump Fox News told “he always felt that there could be no meeting (peace talks) with me because I do not think the deal will agree.

He again criticized Zelenskyy, on the pretext that he had no “cards”, but added that “Putin is tired of this entirety and he is not – he does not look good. He wants to look good.”