{"id":25194,"date":"2025-12-28T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:42:07","slug":"trump-cites-thorniest-issue-offers-takes-on-ukraine-russia-and-putin-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25194","title":{"rendered":"Trump cites \u2018thorniest issue,\u2019 offers takes on Ukraine, Russia and Putin: As it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acknowledging frontline realities in order to bring about a sustainable peace deal was expected to feature significantly<\/p>\n<p>            US President Donald Trump has held a face-to-face meeting and a press conference in Miami with Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky over settling the conflict between Kiev and Moscow. The sit-down came after Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone for over an hour.<br \/>\nZelensky, who faces another corruption scandal implicating lawmakers that erupted over the weekend, is following up on days of negotiations in Florida between Ukrainian and US negotiators on a potential deal to end the Ukraine conflict.<br \/>\nTrump touted good progress in the talks but acknowledged that Ukraine\u2019s potential territorial concessions remain one of the thorniest issues on the agenda. He added that both Moscow and Kiev are working to reopen Russia\u2019s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.<br \/>\nShortly before Zelensky\u2019s arrival, Trump announced on his Truth Social that he had had a\u00a0\u201cvery productive\u201d\u00a0conversation with Putin, while Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said that both\u00a0\u201chold broadly similar views\u201d\u00a0and that a temporary ceasefire would only prolong the conflict.<br \/>\nA 20-point proposal revealed by Zelensky ahead of the meeting has been dismissed by Moscow, which called it\u00a0\u201cradically different\u201d\u00a0from what Russia and the US had discussed on the issue. Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that Moscow was\u00a0\u201cfully\u201d\u00a0ready to move forward with the peace process while Kiev and its European backers seek to derail it.<br \/>\nTrump has invited media representatives to attend the meeting, and our updates will follow events and reactions.<br \/>\nThis live feed has now ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acknowledging frontline realities in order to bring about a sustainable peace deal was expected to feature significantly US President Donald Trump has held a face-to-face meeting and a press conference&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}