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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — President Trump said Friday that he's moving to acceptable up nonstop talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin arsenic soon arsenic helium can, aft Putin opted to skip bid talks betwixt Russia and Ukraine successful Turkey.
"I deliberation it's clip for america to conscionable bash it," Mr. Trump told reporters arsenic helium wrapped a four-day sojourn to the Middle East. Later, helium told reporters connected Air Force One, mounting disconnected connected the travel backmost to Washington, that helium mightiness telephone Putin soon.
"He and I volition meet, and I deliberation we'll lick it oregon possibly not," Mr. Trump said. "At slightest we'll know. And if we don't lick it, it'll beryllium precise interesting."
President Trump attends the U.S.-UAE Business Council successful Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2025.
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The president reiterated that helium wasn't amazed by Putin's determination to skip the talks taking spot Friday successful Turkey. Putin didn't privation to spell due to the fact that he's not there, Mr. Trump said.
Meetings betwixt Ukrainian and Russian delegations did get underway successful Istanbul Friday, but determination was small anticipation of immoderate breakthrough arsenic Putin sent a lower-level delegation, drafting accusations from Ukraine and its European partners that Moscow wasn't truly funny successful a negotiated solution to the war.
Mr. Trump said helium would clasp a gathering with Putin, "as soon arsenic we tin acceptable it up."
"I would really permission present and go," helium said, noting that his girl Tiffany conscionable gave commencement to her archetypal child. "I bash privation to spot my beauteous grandson."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to instrumentality portion successful the talks arsenic Mr. Trump pressed for the leaders to find a solution to the war, ongoing since Russia's February 2022 full-scale penetration of Ukraine. But Putin spurned the telephone to conscionable face-to-face with Zelenskyy.
Mr. Trump has pressed some sides to rapidly travel to an statement to extremity the war. Zelenskyy has agreed to an American program for an archetypal 30-day halt to hostilities, but Russia has not signed connected and has continued to onslaught astatine targets wrong Ukraine.
Firefighters extinguish a occurrence astatine a integrative tableware concern damaged by a Russian drone attack, May 15, 2025, successful Velyka Chernechchyna, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
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"He didn't go, and I recognize that," Mr. Trump said Friday of Putin's determination to skip the talks successful Istanbul. "We're going to get it done. We got to get it done. Five 1000 young radical are being killed each azygous week connected average, and we're going to get it done."
The U.S. president told reporters connected Thursday that a gathering betwixt himself and Putin was important to breaking the deadlock.
"I don't judge anything's going to happen, whether you similar it oregon not, until helium and I get together," Mr. Trump said. "But we're going to person to get it solved due to the fact that excessively galore radical are dying."
Speaking to reporters successful Moscow connected Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said immoderate gathering betwixt Putin and Mr. Trump would person to beryllium "well prepared" for, but helium said specified an brushwood was so indispensable successful Russia's view, arsenic "a superior speech connected planetary issues is needed, including the Ukrainian crisis."
Should the talks successful Istanbul neglect to marque immoderate progress, Zelenskyy said Friday that determination should beryllium a "strong reaction," arsenic it would beryllium clear, successful his view, that Russia does not person immoderate involvement successful ending the war.
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