Trump talks to Putin and Zelenski to negotiate the end of war in Ukraine and says they both want «peace»

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he reached an agreement with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, so that both countries initiate «negotiations immediately» with the aim of ending the war in Ukraine.

«I just talked to President Volodimir Zelenski of Ukraine. The conversation went very well. He, as President Putin wants peace, ”Trump wrote in his social social network.

Trump explained that he spoke with Zelenski of «a variety of issues related to war», but especially the «meeting that is being organized for Friday in Munich, where vice president JD Vance and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will lead the US delegation.

According to a senior American official, Vance plans to meet on Friday with Zelenski on the banks of the Munich Security Conference, a key forum on international policy that this year acquires a special relevance for the critical moment that Ukraine is going through.

«I hope the results of that meeting are positive,» Trump said.

«It is time to stop this ridiculous war, which has caused massive and totally unnecessary death and destruction. God bless the peoples of Russia and Ukraine! ”He added.

Before talking with Zelenski, Trump spoke by phone with Putin and, in another message in Truth Social, he announced that they had reached an agreement for both countries to initiate «negotiations immediately» with the aim of ending the war in Ukraine.

The Kremlin and the White House

As Trump explained in his social network social, the agreement with Putin was achieved after a «long and very productive phone call», in which both leaders expressed their willingness to «stop the millions of deaths that are taking place in the war between Russia and Ukraine ».

Trump explained that the United States and Russia «will begin negotiations immediately» and that the US delegation will be headed by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio; the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe; The White House National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, and the special envoy, Steve Witkoff.

«Millions of people have died in a war that would not have happened if it had been president, but it happened, so it must end. No more lives should be lost, ”said Trump, who said he was convinced that these negotiations» will be successful. «

The president explained that, during his conversation with Putin about the war in Ukraine, the Russian president used the expression «common sense», which Trump has also used to justify some of his decisions since his return to power on January 20.

According to the Kremlin, Trump advocated the fire and the negotiated solution to the conflict.

«Putin, on the other hand, recalled that it is necessary extraordinary telephone press.

Zelenski after talking to Trump: «Let’s do it»

The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, had a conversation with Donald Trump in which they approached the next joint steps to stop the war and achieve «a lasting and solid peace.»

«As President Trump said, let’s do it,» Zelenski said on his social networks by informing the content of the conversation, which occurred shortly after Trump agreed on the phone with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to give a boost to the peace process that the new US administration promotes to end war in Ukraine.

Trump also informed Zelenski of his previous conversation with Putin.

According to Zelenski spokesman, Serguí Nikiforov, the conversation between Ukrainian president and Trump lasted about an hour.

The Ukrainian president will meet this Friday with the US Vice President JDVANCE, on the banks of the Munich Security Conference (Germany), in order to prepare a meeting between Trump and the Ukrainian head of state.

For that meeting there is still no date, Zelenski said the eve in an interview with The Guardian.

Shortly before Trump’s call to the Ukrainian president, Zelenski had met in kyiv with the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, the first member of the new US administration to visit Ukraine.

As Zelenski revealed, Besent presented kyiv a draft economic agreement that Ukraine will study and hope to sign with Washington representatives in Munich, in southern Germany. EFE