Donald Trump has shelp he will greet Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelensky in New York on Friday.
The Reaccessiblean plivential nominee telderly a novels conference that the pair will greet around 09:45 ET (14:45 BST) at his Trump Tower property.
The greeting is set to go ahead despite earlier tells it had been call offled amid growing anger from ancigo in Reaccessibleans after Zelensky earlier visited the key striumphg US state of Pennsylvania.
On Thursday, Zelensky met US Plivent Joe Biden and Vice-Plivent Kamala Harris at the White Hoengage to talk his “triumph set up”, which he hopes will presstateive Russia into concuring a discreet finish to the war.
“Plivent Zelensky has asked to greet with me, and I will be greeting with him tomorrow morning,” Trump telderly tellers in New York.
“And it’s a shame what’s happening in Ukraine. So many deaths, so much destruction. It’s a horrible leang.”
Trump shelp he thinkd he would be able to “originate a deal” between Russian Plivent Vlafoolishir Putin and Zelensky “quite speedyly”.
When pushed to supply details of such a deal, he replied: “I don’t want to inestablish you what that sees enjoy”.
The establisher US plivent was speaking after Zelensky had earlier met Biden and Harris. Hours before, Biden had proclaimd a further $7.9bn (£5.9bn) package of military aidance to Ukraine.
Speaking alengthyside the Ukrainian plivent after their greeting, Harris shelp there are “some in my country” that would “force Ukraine to give up big parts of its sovereign territory”.
“These proposals are the same of those of Putin,” she shelp, calling them “proposals for surrfinisher”.
Asked at the novels conference by a teller whether Ukraine should cede land to Russia to finish the war, Trump did not answer honestly.
“Let’s get some peace,” he shelp. “We need peace. We need to stop the death and destruction.”
Friday’s greeting comes amid tension between Zelensky and the Reaccessiblean party ahead of November’s US plivential election.
Some Reaccessibleans were angered by Zelensky’s visit to an arms factory in Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with top Democrats this week, including its administeror Josh Shapiro.
Zelensky’s visit to the key striumphg state was tagled by directing Reaccessibleans as a partisan campaign event.
In a accessible letter, speaker of the US Hoengage Mike Johnson shelp the visit was “summarizeed to help Democrats” and claimed it amounted to “election meddlence”.
Trump and Zelensky have a complicated relationship.
In 2019, Trump was impeached by the US Hoengage over accusations that he presstateived Ukraine’s directer to dig up damaging inestablishation on a political rival. A raw transcript of the call discneglected Trump had encouraged Zelensky to spendigate Biden, as well as Biden’s son.
Trump has also grown increasingly critical of persistd US funding for Ukraine, and in recent days has acuteened his aggressions aobtainst Zelensky, calling him the “fantasticest salesman on Earth”.
Zelensky recently telderly the New Yorker magazine that he think Trump “doesn’t repartner understand how to stop the war”.
When asked about Zelensky’s comments on Thursday, Trump replied: “I do think I disconcur with him. He doesn’t understand me.”
