Trump says he'll attempt to get again territory for Ukraine in talks with Putin

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump has stated he'll attempt to get some territory again for Ukraine throughout his assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

"Russia's occupied an enormous portion of Ukraine. They occupied prime territory. We'll attempt to get a few of that territory again for Ukraine," he advised a information convention.

He and the Russian president are as a consequence of maintain talks in Alaska on the finish of the week. Trump claimed that he may know inside two minutes of assembly Putin whether or not progress was doable.

He stated Friday could be a "feel-out assembly" geared toward urging Putin to finish the warfare - suggesting he could view the summit as simply an preliminary encounter.

Trump additionally once more warned that there could be "some swapping, adjustments in land" between Russia and Ukraine.

It isn't the primary time he has used the phrase "land-swapping", although it's unclear what land Russia may cede to Ukraine. Kyiv has by no means laid declare to any Russian territories.

Trump stated he'll replace European leaders if Putin proposes a "truthful deal" throughout the talks, including that he would converse to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky first "out of respect".

"I will name him first... I will name him after, and I'll say, 'a lot of luck, maintain preventing,' or I'll say, 'we are able to make a deal'", he stated.

Whereas Trump additionally stated that whereas he and Zelensky "get alongside", he "very severely disagrees with what [the Ukrainian president] has achieved". Trump has beforehand blamed Zelensky for the warfare in Ukraine, which was sparked by Russia's full-scale invasion of the nation in February 2022.

He said {that a} future assembly may embrace Zelensky and could possibly be a three-way session together with himself and Putin.

Nonetheless, the Kremlin has at all times performed down expectations of a gathering with Zelensky, with Putin reiterating not too long ago the situations to fulfill the Ukrainian president have been nonetheless far off.

Trump introduced the assembly with Putin final Friday - the day of his self-imposed deadline for Russia to comply with a ceasefire or face extra US sanctions.

In response to information of the Alaska summit, Zelensky stated any agreements with out enter from Kyiv would quantity to "useless selections".

On Monday he additionally cited a report from Ukraine's intelligence service saying there was no signal Russia was making ready to place an finish to the preventing in Ukraine.