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I’ve always had a businesslike, pragmatic and even trusting relationship with the current president,
Putin said according to The Moscow Times We are ready. But, I repeat, this primarily, of course, depends on the decisions and choices of the current American administration,
I have a hard time imagining decisions being made that would damage the American economy,
Therefore, most likely, it would be better for us to meet, based on the realities of today, to talk calmly on all those areas that are of interest to both the United States and Russia. We are ready,
There is something for us to talk about here,
I cannot but agree with him [Trump - ed.] that if he had been president and his victory had not been stolen from him in 2020, there might not have been the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022,
This conflict does not depend on oil prices."
The Kremlin rejected Trump's Putin is ready. We are waiting for signals,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of Trump's overtures Three people were killed in an enemy attack in the Kyiv region,
the emergency services said in a statement on social media I am also going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil. You have to bring it down which, frankly, I am surprised they didn't do before the election. That didn't show a lot of love by them not doing it. I was a little surprised by that. If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately,
Trump said in his address Right now, the price is high enough that the war will continue. You have to bring down the oil price, you have to end that war. They should have done it long ago. They are very responsible, to a certain extent, for what's taking place. Millions of lives are being lost. With oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately and likewise they should be dropping all over the world,
I think he (Putin) should make a deal." ... I don't know." ... Russia should want to make a deal. Maybe they want to make a deal. I think, from what I hear, Putin would like to see me. And we'll meet as soon as we can. I'd meet immediately. Soldiers are being killed on the battlefield,
Talking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, the president said ... When asked if he thinks that sanctions on Russia will force Putin to negotiate, he said ... he said That battlefield is like no battlefield since World War II... and I have pictures that you don't want to see. Soldiers are being killed on a daily basis at numbers that we haven't seen in decades. It would be nice to end that war. It's a ridiculous war,
He's (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) ready to negotiate a deal. He'd like to stop. He's somebody that lost a lot of soldiers. So did Russia. Russia lost more soldiers, they lost 8,00,000 soldiers,
These are human beings that are just being slaughtered on this battlefield by the millions. They've already died, and the cities — the cities are like demolition sites,
he said in an interview that aired Thursday on "Hannity." Putin shouldn't have done it, too. I mean, I'm not blaming only what — Putin shouldn't have done it. He shouldn't have done it, and it has to stop,
Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity — much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn't have done that because we could have made a deal and it would have been a deal that would have been — it would have been a nothing deal,
I knew that it [Ukraine] was the apple of President Putin's eye, but I also knew that there was no way he was going in ... and he wasn't going to go in,
If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately,
said Trump, alluding to Russia earning much revenue from its energy sales Most of the world's now thinking — so, what's going happen to their relationship with America? What will happen to alliances? To support? To trade? How does President Trump plan to end wars