U.S. President Donald Trump will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in a possible pivot point in efforts to finish the war in Ukraine and a possibility for Trump to proceed reorienting American foreign policy.
Trump disclosed the upcoming conversation to reporters while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One on Sunday evening, while the Kremlin confirmed Putin’s participation on Monday morning.
“We are going to see if we’ve got something to announce possibly by Tuesday. I shall be talking to President Putin on Tuesday,” Trump said. “A variety of work’s been done over the weekend. We would like to see if we are able to bring that war to an end.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday morning confirmed the plans for the 2 leaders to talk on Tuesday, but declined to provide details, saying that “we never get ahead of events” and “the content of conversations between two presidents will not be subject to any prior discussion.”
European allies are wary of Trump’s affinity for Putin and his hardline stance toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who faced sharp criticism when he visited the Oval Office somewhat greater than two weeks ago.
Although Russia failed in its initial goal to topple Ukraine with its invasion three years ago, it still controls large swaths of the country.
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Trump said land and power plants are a part of the conversation around bringing the war to an in depth.
“We shall be talking about land. We shall be talking about power plants,” he said, a process he described as “dividing up certain assets.”
Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff recently visited Moscow last week to advance negotiations.
Russia illegally annexed 4 Ukrainian regions after launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — the Donetsk and Luhansk regions within the east and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions within the southeast of the country — but doesn’t fully control any of the 4. Last 12 months, Putin listed Kyiv’s withdrawal of troops from all 4 regions as one in all the demands for peace.
In 2014, the Kremlin also annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
Within the occupied a part of the Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow controls the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant — the biggest in Europe. The plant has repeatedly been caught within the crossfire because the invasion. The International Atomic Energy Agency, a U.N. body, has continuously expressed alarm in regards to the plant amid fears of a possible nuclear catastrophe.
During his conversation with reporters on Air Force One, Trump said he was pushing forward together with his plans for tariffs on April 2 despite recent disruption within the stock market and nervousness in regards to the economic impact.
“April 2 is a liberating day for our country,” he said. “We’re getting back a number of the wealth that very, very silly presidents gave away because they’d no clue what they were doing.”
Trump has occasionally modified course on some tariff plans, resembling with Mexico, but he said he had no intention of doing so relating to reciprocal tariffs.
“They charge us and we charge them,” he said. “Then along with that, on autos, on steel, on aluminum, we’re going to have some additional tariffs.”
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