The Russian and US heads of state spoke over the phone on Thursday and reportedly agreed to hold a summit on Ukraine within the next two weeks<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has said his latest conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, could lead to a peace settlement in the Ukraine conflict.
\nTrump made the remarks at a press briefing following his phone call with Putin on Thursday. There have been renewed US-Russia tensions over possible deliveries of American Tomahawk missile to Ukraine and stalled peace talks. Trump said the two-and-a-half-hour conversation was so \u201cproductive\u201d that a peace deal could come soon.
\n\u201cI thought it was a very good phone call, very productive\u2026 And we think we\u2019re going to get [the conflict] stopped,\u201d he said. \u201cThis may be such a productive call that we\u2019re going to end up\u2026 we want to get peace.\u201d
\nEarlier, Trump wrote on Truth Social that \u201cgreat progress was made\u201d during the call and said he and Putin had agreed to hold a bilateral summit in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n
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He told reporters the meeting will likely occur within two weeks, following talks between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as well as Trump\u2019s meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in Washington on Friday. The last Putin-Trump summit, held in Anchorage, Alaska, in August, yielded no breakthrough, but Trump said on Thursday it had \u201cset the stage\u201d for a broader peace process.
\nCommenting on possible Tomahawk deliveries to Kiev, Trump neither confirmed nor denied the plans, but noted that while the US has \u201ca lot of them,\u201d it needs the missiles for its own security and \u201ccan\u2019t deplete\u201d its arsenal.
\nAccording to Putin\u2019s foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov, the Russian president told Trump during the phone call that sending Tomahawks to Kiev would not alter the battlefield situation but could \u201cseverely undermine the prospects of a peaceful settlement\u201d and harm Russia-US relations.<\/p>\n
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Ushakov said Putin had reaffirmed Moscow\u2019s commitment to \u201ca peaceful political-diplomatic resolution\u201d and called the discussion \u201cvery substantive and extremely frank.\u201d He added that preparations for the next Putin-Trump summit would start immediately, with Budapest under consideration. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban later wrote on X that he had also spoken with Trump and that preparations were already underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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