Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he and Donald Trump should meet to talk about the Ukraine war and energy prices, the issues that the US president has highlighted in the first five days of his new administration. –
However, Putin said there could be no serious dialogue with Ukraine unless President Wolodmeer Zillinsky in the West was bent to cancel a decree of 2022 that would prevent him from talking with the Russian leader. –
Putin described Trump, who threatened to hit Russia this week with new sanctions and prices if he did not talk smartly and practically at the end of the war. He said he does not expect the US president to make decisions about sanctions that will overcome the US economy.
“So, perhaps, based on today’s facts, it would be better for us to talk calmly to all the areas that are interested in both the United States and Russia. We are ready,” he added, adding that it depends on the United States. Is on choice.
It was the strongest indication by the Kremlin that the war in Ukraine was wishing to have a preliminary summit with Trump three years after practically no high -level contact with Western leaders.
Trump, who was sworn in for a second, unexpected period on Monday, has also said he wants to meet Putin and he looks for an early end of the conflict. He said this week that the war was “ridiculous” and that it was “destroying” Russia’s economy.
Putin said he always had a “practical and confidence” relationship with Trump. He also supported Trump’s false claims that he, who was not Biden, was the real winner of the 2020 US elections.
The Kremlin leader said, “I cannot help them agree that if they were president, if their victory would not have been stolen in 2020, there would probably be a crisis in Ukraine which was born in 2022.”
In February this year, Putin launched the same launch in Ukraine as his “special military operation”.
He noted Trump’s comments that he was ready to work together, saying: “We are always open to it.”
Stacking point with Ukraine
But the Russian leader said that there was an important point with Ukraine Zilnsky Farman banned talks with Putin, followed by it in 2022, when Russia said it was affiliating four Ukrainian regions, which are partially controlled by its forces.
Putin said that it means that there is no serious dialogue, only at this point there may be a “initial outline”. He said that no dialogue would be legitimate anymore, and that is why the results of any negotiations could be challenged on a legal basis.
He said that Western countries, which are providing Zillinski to the fund “hundreds of billions”, should cancel the decree to the Ukrainian leader. “I think, in the end, force the money they pay.
“And I think he has to do it. But unless the order is canceled, it is difficult to talk about the possibility of starting these talks – and most importantly, completing them in the necessary way.
However, Putin said, however, to talk to the Trump administration a lot, to control weapons and energy, that the two countries were large oil producing producers and consumers.
“This meant that excessive oil or excessive prices were bad for both countries,” he said. Trump said he was demanding OPEC this week to reduce oil prices. Putin said, “We have something to talk about here.
