NATO general secretary Mark Rute said on Sunday that President Trump Russian President Vladimir Putin will “test” in his landmark. Meeting set for fridayAs the world leaders push for a ceasefire deal in Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Rute said, “On Friday, it is important to see how serious Putin is, and only one who can Trump President.”
Mr. Trump announces the “high anticipated” summit with Putin Post At the end of last week, Satya is on social, the leaders are all set to meet in Alaska on Friday.
The US President had expressed disappointment with Putin in recent weeks, as Russia provoked Ukraine with drone and missile attacks, in which Ukraine described such as the biggest attacks since Ukraine started in February 2022. Then last week, the tide within the administration appeared as Steve Witwoff, the special messenger of Shri Trump. Meet with Putin In Moscow, and the two countries began suggesting openness for a meeting between the two presidents.
Mr. Trump told reporters late last week that Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelanski want “to see peace.” And although the White House had earlier indicated in the week that Mr. Trump is open to meet with both Putin and Zelancesi, Mr. Trump said that he is planning to “start with Russia”, while saying that saying “We have a tripartite meeting with Putin and Zelansky”. Two sources told CBS News on Saturday that Mr. Trump is still ready to meet jointly with Zelansky and Putin, but the meeting is currently bilateral, as Putin requested.
Rute asked if he was excluded from these talks with Ukraine on Friday, when this area, security guarantee, peace talks and what happens next, “Ukraine would have to include – and will join.”
“It is really important that a meeting takes place. It will not be the final to say on it,” Rute said. “Of course, Ukraine will have to join Europe, but it is important to start the next stage of this process, putting pressure on the Russians, as President Trump has been for the last six months.”
Rute argued that Mr. Trump launched a dialogue with Putin earlier this year and “originally broke the deadlock”, called it “important” development.
He usually appreciated Mr. Trump’s strategy. Rutte held a “great NATO Summit” led by the US President, with commitments to each member state, to increase defense spending up to 5% of its GDP in a sign for Russia that “we are serious.” And Rute credited Mr. Trump to allow us To distribute weapons In Ukraine, in which he stated “floods opened” by appreciating the employed secondary sanctions employed on some of the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas including India.
The General Secretary said that the NATO-I weapon delivery would continue regardless of what happens at the Friday’s summit, “to ensure that Ukraine needs to live in a fight and stay in the best position” when time comes for talks for a ceasefire or peace deal.
On the possibility of the introduction of those negotiations, Rute said that Friday’s meeting “President Trump is sure that Putin is serious.”
“If he is not, it will stop there,” Rute said. “If he is serious, from Friday, the process will continue – Ukraine is joining, Europeans are joining.”
It is not clear what a final ceasefire or peace deal could be, as Russia has demanded that Ukraine has captured parts of East Ukraine by Russian soldiers – which Ukraine has rejected. Mr. Trump said that last week any deal will include “exchange of some states”.
Rutte said on Sunday that Russia’s control over the Ukrainian region can never be accepted “in legal sense”, but the conversation “can cover” how to deal with the factual situation caught by Russians, at this time, in the Ukrainian region. ”
Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova also appeared on the “Face the Nation” on Sunday, and said “all Ukraine prays to President Trump to be effective and give great results.”
“We want Putin to wait,” said Markarova. “And we are really expecting that President Trump and approval packages are pushing on the table and secondary restrictions that are already applicable against those who help Russia, will explain to President Putin that it is time for him to stop their aggression.”
Markarova said that Zelanski is ready to participate in future meetings as required, but did not criticize the fact that Alaska meeting will only feature the US and Russian leaders, saying, “Sometimes diplomacy requires different formats for diplomacy.”
Nevertheless, others have expressed concern about the planned meeting between Mr. Trump and Putin. Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, who appeared on the “Face the Nation” on Sunday also, said, “I hope we got something from this,” saying that the administration should have been taken out for the visit. ,
“Putin is a war criminal,” Kelly said. “This is not a demonstration of strength to allow to interact with our President, to land here, to allow flying to the United States.”
Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.
