“No time set, but it could be very soon,“ Trump told reporters, hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to play down expectations of upcoming high-level talks in Riyadh on ending the war.
Trump, addressing reporters after a flight on Air Force One, said his team has been speaking “long and hard” with Russian officials, including his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff whom the president said met with Putin for about three hours recently.
Asked whether he believes Putin wants to seize the entirety of Ukraine, Trump said: “That was my question to him.
“I think he wants to end it, and they want to end it fast. Both of them,“ he said, adding “Zelensky wants to end it too.”
Trump appeared to dismiss Zelensky’s remarks, telling reporters he was “not even a little bit” concerned about the Ukrainian leader’s messaging.
“A process towards peace is not a one-meeting thing,“ America’s top diplomat said in an interview with CBS on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
Rubio is set to lead a high-level US team to Riyadh, but it remains unclear whether there will be any Ukrainian participation. Rubio said he wasn’t even sure who Moscow was sending.
Witkoff and US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz are both expected to attend the talks.
The call blindsided NATO allies as well as Kyiv, with Zelensky insisting there should be “no decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
In an interview with NBC broadcast Sunday, Zelensky had said Putin was a serial liar and could not be trusted as a negotiating partner.
“The next few weeks and days will determine whether (Putin) is serious or not.”
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