Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin said that they made progress in three hours of talks on August 15, moving closer to finding an end to the Ukraine War, but did not announce an immediate ceasefire. “It’s not a done deal at all”, he told a Fox News interviewer after Friday’s summit in Alaska. “And Ukraine has to agree. President (Volodymyr) Zelensky has to agree.”
“We had a very good meeting today, and I think a lot of points were negotiated on behalf of Ukraine”, he said.
Before the summit, he said that he would not be negotiating on behalf of Ukraine and that the meeting was a sounding board aimed at facilitating a direct meeting between Presidents Putin and Zelensky. “Now it’s really up to President Zelensky to get it done”, President Trump said of a peace deal.
“We have a pretty good chance of getting it done”, he added. “They’re going to set up a meeting now, between President Zelensky and President Putin and myself, I guess”, he said.
President Trump had said that he could call an immediate meeting between Presidents Putin and Zelensky if the discussion went his way. At the end of the news conference, he told Putin, “We’ll speak to you very soon, and probably see you again very soon.” President Putin chirped up, “Next time in Moscow.”
