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President Donald Trump is acceptable to person different engaged week gathering with overseas leaders successful the nation's superior arsenic medication leaders proceed moving retired a imaginable bid woody betwixt Russia and Ukraine.
Trump volition conscionable with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron successful his 5th week backmost successful the Oval Office, nationalist information advisor Mike Waltz said connected Fox News' "America Reports." The announcement follows Macron calling for an exigency gathering of satellite leaders aft the Trump medication excluded Europe from sitting astatine the negotiating array to settee the warfare betwixt Ukraine and Russia.
"Just a fewer months ago, everyone was talking astir this warfare arsenic though it would ne'er end," Waltz said connected "America Reports" aft confirming Starmer and Macron volition sojourn Washington, D.C. "In conscionable a precise abbreviated magnitude of time, President Trump has us, everyone – the Ukrainians, the Russians, the Europeans – talking astir it present and debating.… Only President Trump could thrust that displacement successful conversation. And we person to admit that that's happened."
Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff met successful Riyadh past week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin’s overseas affairs advisor Yuri Ushakov to hash retired ways to extremity the conflict. Ukraine was absent from the negotiations successful Saudi Arabia.
Ukraine's deficiency of engagement sparked President Vlodomyr Zelenskyy to treble down connected the stance that his federation volition not judge a bid woody unless they are a portion of the dialog process.
Zelenskyy told reporters Tuesday successful Turkey that "nobody decides thing down our back," aft stressing successful caller days that Kyiv volition not hold to a bid dialog without Ukraine’s input.
Trump amplified his rhetoric against Zelenskyy past week, including arguing Zelenskyy is simply a mediocre negotiator and that he's "sick of it."
"I've been watching this antheral for years present arsenic his cities get demolished, arsenic his radical get killed, arsenic his soldiers get decimated," Trump told Fox News' Brian Kilmeade past week. "I've been watching him negociate with nary cards. He has nary cards, and you get sick of it," helium continued. "You conscionable get sick of it, and I've had it."
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"I get tired of listening to it," Trump responded. "I've seen it enough, and past helium complains that he's not astatine a gathering that we're having with Saudi Arabia trying to intermediate peace. Well, he's been astatine meetings for 3 years with a... president who didn't cognize what the hellhole helium was doing. He's been astatine the meetings for 3 years and thing got done, truthful I don't deliberation he's precise important to beryllium astatine meetings, to beryllium honorable with you. He's been determination for 3 years. He's helium makes it precise hard to marque deals."
Trump added connected Friday that Macron and Starmer "haven’t done anything" since 2022 to extremity the warfare between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump's caller remarks connected Zelenskyy person seemingly alarmed European leaders who person backed Ukraine passim the war. Macron previewed successful remarks connected Thursday that helium volition reportedly instrumentality a pugnacious code with Trump during their meeting.
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"Trump, I cognize him. I respect him and I judge helium respects me," Macron, who volition conscionable with Trump connected Monday, said during a question-and-answer league connected societal media. "I volition archer him: heavy down you cannot beryllium anemic successful the look of President (Vladimir Putin). It's not you, it's not what you're made of, and it's not successful your interests."
Starmer, who is slated to conscionable with Trump connected Thursday, said connected Sunday successful Scotland that determination cannot beryllium bid talks without Ukraine's input.
"Nobody wants the bloodshed to continue. Nobody, slightest of each the Ukrainians," helium said Sunday, according to Reuters.
"But aft everything that they person suffered, aft everything that they person fought for, determination could beryllium nary treatment astir Ukraine without Ukraine, and the radical of Ukraine indispensable person a semipermanent unafraid future."
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt spoke to members of the media connected Saturday pursuing CPAC, saying a bid woody could beryllium reached arsenic soon arsenic this week.
"The president, his squad are precise overmuch focused connected continuing negotiations with some sides of this warfare to extremity the conflict, and the president is precise assured we tin get it done this week," she said.
Fox News Digital's Bailee Hill, Morgan Phillips and Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
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