Trump says he will know whether Putin wants a peace agreement with Ukraine soon at their Alaska meeting star-news.press/wp

Washington – President Trump said on Monday that he expected to determine only moments interview With Russian President Vladimir Putin this week if it is possible to reach an agreement to stop War in Ukraine.

“At the end of this meeting, and perhaps the first two minutes, I will know exactly whether or not it could be made,” Mr. Trump told a White House press conference where I could know exactly whether or not a deal could be made. Plans announced For federal seizure of Washington police to help fight crime.

He said he believed that on Friday with Putin in Alaska it would be a “truly meeting.” Mr. Trump added that “it will be good, but it might be bad” and expected he might say, “a lot of luck, continue to fight. Or I might say, we can make a deal.”

Putin has wants Russia’s gains since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, where Mr. Trump presses a ceasefire, which has been out of reach. Mr. Trump’s passion for a deal in Ukraine and Europe has sparked a deal about such an agreement in favor of Russia, without sufficient inputs from Ukraine. Mr. Trump was harshly criticized by both leaders after they promised – and their failure so far – by ending the conflict quickly.

NATO Secretary -General Mark Retty He said, “Confronting the Nation” On Sunday, “It is important to see how dangerous Putin, and the only animal that he can do is President Trump.”

“It is very important for a meeting to happen. This will not be the last saying in this,” Root said. “Of course, Ukraine should participate in Europe, but it is important that the next stage of this process begin, which makes pressure on the Russians, just as President Trump does over the past six months.”

On Monday, Mr. Trump broadcast repeated opportunities to say that he would push for Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski to participate in his discussions with Putin, and he was particularly refusing to Zelinski and his need to be part of an attempt to search for peace.

He said that the Ukrainian president was “a lot of meetings” without being able to stop a war that Russia began. Mr. Trump also indicated that Zelinski was in power throughout the war period and said, “Nothing happened” during that time. He remained with that with Putin, who played power in Russia for decades.

After his meeting with Putin, Mr. Trump said, “The next meeting with Zelinski and Putin” would be also a meeting with “Putin and Zeilinsky and I.”

The European allies have pushed Ukraine’s involvement, afraid that discussions could prefer Moscow.

To this point, Mr. Trump said that he will call Bzilinski European leaders after discussing Putin “to tell them about the type of deal – I will not conclude. It is no longer for me to conclude a deal.”

Mr. Trump spent the early part of his administration criticizing Zelinski, even indicating that he was a dictator because his country did not take place during the war. Zelinski was He got out of the oval office In February after Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance suggested that he was not grateful enough to support us.

Recently, Mr. Trump Expressed With Putin that Russia did not seem to take a batch to a ceasefire seriously, and hid his tone towards Zelenskyy. His two comments suggested that he might have had another heart change.

“President Putin has invited me to participate,” said Mr. Trump. He indicated that he believed that he is “very respectful” that Putin will come to the United States for Friday, instead of insisting that Mr. Trump goes to Russia.

“I would like to see the ceasefire. I would like to see the best deal that can be made for both parties,” said Mr. Trump.

The president repeated that any major agreement could involve land bodies, without a situation. Moscow has threatened more economic sanctions if more to work for a ceasefire, but he suggested that on Monday that if a meeting on Friday is successful, he may see a day when the United States and Russia are normalized.

It is expected that Putin will be fixed in his demands to preserve all the lands that his forces occupy now and prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, with a long -term goal to return him to the field of Moscow’s influence.

Zelenskyy insists that it will never agree to any official Russian annexation of Ukrainian lands or abandoning a NATO membership.

Putin believes it has an advantage on the ground as the Ukrainian forces are struggling to discover Russian developments along the 600 miles. On the front lines, a few Ukrainian soldiers believe that there is an end on the horizon of war.

With Europeans and Ukrainians, they have not yet been invited to the top, Germany Seek to prepare By inviting Mr. Trump and Zelinski, NATO president and many other European leaders to attend a virtual meeting on Wednesday.

The German counselor said that the talks will be looking for additional ways to pressure Russia and prepare for peace negotiations and “related issues of regional demands and security.”

Stephen Mayer, spokesman for German Chancellor Fredchiich Mirz, said that the German government “has always confirmed that the borders should not be changed by force” and that Ukraine must decide its fate “independently and independently.”

Earlier, the Ukrainian drone attack was killed by one person and two other people were injured in an area about 260 miles east of Moscow.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed a total of 39 Ukrainian drones overnight and the morning of Monday on several Russian regions, as well as over the Crimea, which was included in Russia in 2014.