- Both leaders expanded invitations to “visit each other’s nations”.
- Trump is praised by the Russian president in the social speech of his truth.
- The Trump-Putin call came after a prisoner this week.
Washington: US President Donald Trump said he had a “long -lasting and very productive” call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, where they agreed to “immediately” start negotiations to end the Ukraine war.
Trump said of truth social that both leaders had expanded invitations to “visit each other’s nations” while the American leader said he would call the Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky “right now” to inform him of the call.
In an extraordinary thawing in the relationship between Washington and Moscow, the Kremlin said separately that the call lasted an hour and a half and that Putin and Trump agreed that “the time has come to work together.”
Putin also told Trump that a “long-term settlement” of the Ukraine conflict triggered by Russia’s 2022 invasion of his pro-Western neighbor was possible and invited the US president to Moscow, the Kremlin said.
The Trump-Putin call came after a prisoner swapped this week when Moscow free us teaches Marc Fogel, while Washington released Russian Cryptocurrency Kingpin Alexander Vinnik.
Trump reap praise to the Russian president in his truth’s social post and said that Putin “even used my very strong campaign motto of ‘common sense.’
He said they “both agreed, we will stop the millions of deaths taking place in the war with Russia/Ukraine” – with Trump using an unconfirmed figure for the toll in the war.
“We agreed to work together, very close, including visiting each other’s nations,” Trump said.
“We have also agreed to get our respective teams to start negotiations right away, and we will start by calling President Zelensky from Ukraine to inform him of the conversation, something that I will do right now.”
Trump said he had asked us Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his Middle East -Release Steve Witkoff “to lead the negotiations that I feel strong will be successful.”
