Trump Provides Live Update During Phone Call With Vladimir Putin
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President Donald Trump provided a live update to the world during a phone call with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
“I am speaking to President Putin now,” reported Trump in a post on Truth Social. “The conversation is ongoing, a lengthy one, and I will report the contents, as will President Putin, at its conclusion. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are set to meet at the White House on Friday, where, according to Axios, the pair will “discuss what weapons should be supplied to Ukraine, specifically if the U.S. should provide game-changing long-range Tomahawk missiles to the war-torn country.”
Zelensky wrote the following on X on Monday:
I will also have the opportunity to come to Washington and meet with President Trump on Friday. I believe we will discuss a series of steps that I intend to propose. I am grateful to President Trump for our dialogue and his support.
There will be several other important meetings – with defense companies, and possibly with senators and members of Congress. I will also meet with energy companies. This is necessary – it was President Trump’s proposal – and I will meet with these companies because there are pressing needs linked to various formats of attacks, not even the attacks that Russia has already carried out. In any case, we must be prepared. So, it will be helpful.
Therefore, the main focus of the visit is air defense and our long-range capabilities aimed at exerting pressure on Russia for the sake of peace.
While Trump entered office with a relatively conciliatory approach toward Putin and antagonistic one toward Zelensky, he has changes his tune in recent months, praising Zelensky and expressing his frustration with Putin for standing in the way of a peace agreement between the two neighbors.
