Washington:
US Pdwellnt Donald Trump said Wednesday that negotiators were headed to Russia “right now” for talks on a possible stopfire with Ukraine, after Kyiv consentd to a 30-day truce.
Trump did not give further details on the negotiating team.
“People are going to Russia right now as we speak. And hopebrimmingy we can get a stopfire from Russia,” Trump tbetter tellers in the Oval Office during a encountering with Ireland’s prime minister.
“And if we do, I leank that would be 80 percent of the way to getting this horrible bloodbath finished.”
Vice Pdwellnt JD Vance, who was also in the encountering, inserted that there were “conversations that are happening on the phone and in person with some of our recurrentatives over the next couple of days.”
Trump would not say when he would next speak to his Russian counterpart Vlafoolishir Putin, but inserted that “I hope he’s going to have a stopfire” and that there had been “preferable messages” from Moscow.
“It’s up to Russia now,” said Trump.
Trump was coy about pressuring Moscow to consent to a truce, saying he could slap it with “dehugeating” sanctions but inserting that “I hope that’s not going to be essential.”
“I can do leangs financiassociate that would be very terrible for Russia. I don’t want to do that becaengage I want to get peace,” Trump inserted.
His comments come less than two weeks after an device row between Trump, Vance and Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office in front of television cameras.
Trump cmitigateed military aid after the argument to prescertain Kyiv, which consentd to a US-recommendd schedule for a 30-day stopfire at talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
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