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Trump warns Putin may not want to make a deal

2025-08-20 07:52:33Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Trump warns Putin may not want to make a deal
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

The Kremlin has downplayed rumors of a possible summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, even as former US President Donald Trump has repeated his call for the two leaders to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

Trump's call for a bilateral meeting comes after his meeting with Putin last week in Alaska, as well as hosting seven European leaders and President Zelensky at the White House on Monday.

Trump acknowledged that the conflict is “difficult” to resolve and that there is a possibility that President Putin is not interested in ending the war. “We’ll learn about President Putin in the next couple of weeks,” Trump said Tuesday. “It’s possible that he may not want to make a deal.”

He added that if that happened, Putin would face a “difficult situation,” without elaborating. In an interview with conservative talk show host Mark Levin on Tuesday night, Trump suggested that “it would be better” if Putin and Zelensky met without him, but added that he would be willing to participate in such a meeting “if necessary.”

Putin had told Trump on Monday that he was "open" to the idea of direct talks with Ukraine, but the next day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov softened that statement, stressing that any meeting should be prepared "gradually, starting at the expert level."

Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's deputy representative to the UN, told the BBC that "no one has rejected" the possibility of direct talks, but warned that "it should not be a meeting just for the sake of a meeting."

Meanwhile, NATO military chiefs are expected to hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday, while the UK's chief of staff, Admiral Tony Radakin, is travelling to Washington to discuss the possibility of deploying a security force to Ukraine.

On Tuesday, it was reported that Putin had suggested to Trump that Zelensky travel to Moscow for talks - an idea that Ukraine is not expected to accept, seen as a proposal that is unlikely to materialize and could be used by Russia to blame Kiev for the lack of diplomatic progress.

The talks of recent days appear to have given Trump a clearer understanding of the complexities of the conflict and the gap between Moscow's demands and Kiev's positions.

The ceasefire he had previously mentioned as possible has not materialized, but Trump has now said that Russia and Ukraine should aim for a permanent peace agreement. In the meantime, some progress has been made on security guarantees for Ukraine.

According to sources, Zelensky and European leaders have convinced Trump that strong security guarantees are essential to protecting Ukraine's sovereignty in any future peace agreement.


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