The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Friday that there is a “very good possibility” that the war between Russia and Ukraine can end after Washington had “productive” conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Thursday.
Trump added that he asked Putin to forgive his life from the “completely surrounded” Ukrainian troops, in apparent reference to the fact that the Ukrainian forces are being expelled from the Kursk region, his only position in Russian territory.
“We had very good and productive conversations with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, and there is a very good opportunity for this horrible and bloody war to finally end,” Trump said in a publication on his social truth platform.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt later told journalists Trump had not talked to Putin on Thursday, but that the American envoy Steve Witkoff did.
Witkoff held a long meeting with Putin in Moscow on Thursday night, according to an informed source about the matter that spoke on condition of anonymity.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin took advantage of the meeting to transmit “signals” to Trump through Witkoff. He said that Russia and the United States will agree on the calendar of a phone call among its presidents once Witkoff had informed Trump.
The US president has expressed his desire that Moscow and kyiv remember a quick fire to stop fighting in a conflict that, As he has warned, he can lead to a third World War and that has already cost many lives on both sides.
