In a social media post, Trump said that held a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” with Putin and that they agreed to “have our respective teams start negotiations immediately”. He also said that he and Putin had agreed to visit each other’s nations. “As we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, ‘COMMON SENSE.’ We both believe very strongly in it. We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s Nations.” The US negotiating team would include the secretary of state, Marco Rubio; the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe; the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, and the ambassador and special envoy Steve Witkoff.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine. "We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now," Trump said in a post on his social media platform. The Kremlin said Putin and Trump had spoken for nearly an hour and a half by telephone and that the two men had agreed to meet. Trump has long said he would quickly end the war in Ukraine, without saying how he would accomplish this.
President Trump revealed Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to start talks “immediately” to end Moscow’s war on Ukraine. “I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The president told The Post over the weekend he had been having discussions with Putin, but had not revealed the topics of conversation. Trump said he would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “inform him of the conversation” with Putin. Wednesday’s conversation took place after Trump negotiated a prisoner exchange with Russia to release American teacher Marc Fogel in exchange for Russian crypto site leader Alexander Vinnik, who pleaded guilty last year to federal charges of money laundering conspiracy.
