– I have a good relationship with both Zelenskyj and Putin and want to work with both, Trump said when he and Zelenskyj met the press ahead of the talks on Friday afternoon. Zelenskyy said Trump and he will discuss all aspects of the war. – We will discuss how the war can end. Putin cannot win this war, Zelenskyy said before he and Trump entered a meeting room in Trump Tower in Manhattan. Uncertainty around the meeting Ukraine’s president, who is in the United States, has been trying to reach an agreement with Donald Trump for several days. American media have been in doubt as to whether there would be any meeting between the two, writes the AFP news agency. Donald Trump has agreed to meet Zelenskyj in Trump Tower on Friday afternoon Norwegian time. The two have different views on the war between Russia and Ukraine. Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP The reason is that Donald Trump is supposed to be offended after Zelenskyj is said to have told The New Yorker that “Republicans don’t know how to stop the war”. Trump has several times cast doubt on America’s continued support for Ukraine if he wins the election. Donald Trump believes he will land a peace deal very quickly if he wins the election in November. Before the meeting began, Trump hinted that he will end the war before his inauguration in January if he wins the US election. Zelenskyy said at the start of the meeting that he wants to discuss details of his so-called victory plan for Ukraine with Trump. After the agreement on a meeting fell through yesterday, Trump looked positively on meeting Zelenskyj. – I look forward to seeing him tomorrow, Trump said at a press conference on Thursday. – I think I will be able to reach an agreement between President Putin and President Zelenskyj. Pretty quickly, he added. On Thursday, Zelenskyj met the Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell, until then the most powerful person on the Republican side during the US visit. On Friday afternoon, he will meet the party’s presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Ten right is the Democrats’ majority leader Chuck Schumar. Photo: DREW ANGERER / AFP Trump adds that he and Zelenskyj disagree on certain issues. Trump: No war if he was president Trump claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he himself was in the White House. This week he criticized Zelenskyj for not having concluded an agreement with Russia to end the war. “We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal,” Trump said. “So many dead people, any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now,” Trump said at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. On Thursday, he was asked whether Ukraine should cede territory to Russia to end the war. Then he replied “we’ll see what happens”, writes Reuters. Thinks Trump is simplifying Zelenskyj indicated in an interview published in The New Yorker earlier this week that Trump does not understand the conflict, and that he is simplifying it, writes NTB. Zelenskyj and Harris met in the US this week. The picture is from this summer when they attended the Ukraine summit in Switzerland. Photo: ALESSANDRO DELLA VALLE / AFP He also said that Trump’s vice-presidential candidate JD Vance is “too radical”, and that in practice he is advocating that Ukraine should “make a sacrifice” by giving up territory. While Trump and Vance have long been skeptical of US support for Ukraine, many Republican allies of the former president have supported the Ukrainians’ defense struggle, which they believe is in the US interest. Met Biden and Harris Zelenskyj met President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday and has extended his stay in the US to meet Trump. At the meetings in the White House, he was promised unwavering support and 8 billion new dollars for military equipment and weapons. The president of Ukraine, who has attended the UN summit this week, postponed his return trip to Ukraine after Donald Trump finally agreed to meet him face to face. Published 27/09/2024, at 15.41 Updated 27.09.2024, at 16.45
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