President Donald Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will be involved in peace talks with Russia, a day after top US advisers suggested the negotiations might go on without him.
“He will be involved, yes,” Trump said after attending the Daytona 500 car race in Florida. He didn’t specify whether Zelenskiy or his aides would attend preliminary talks this week in Saudi Arabia or later summit among the country’s leaders.
It was the first definitive statement from the White House that Ukraine would be permitted a seat at the table when the US and Russia discuss ending the war, which started with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Trump, who had a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, said he doesn’t believe the Russian president has further territorial ambitions in Ukraine.
“No, I think he wants to stop,” Trump said. “That was my question to him, because if he was going to go on that would have been a big problem fo
“He will be involved, yes,” Trump said after attending the Daytona 500 car race in Florida. He didn’t specify whether Zelenskiy or his aides would attend preliminary talks this week in Saudi Arabia or later summit among the country’s leaders.
It was the first definitive statement from the White House that Ukraine would be permitted a seat at the table when the US and Russia discuss ending the war, which started with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Trump, who had a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, said he doesn’t believe the Russian president has further territorial ambitions in Ukraine.
“No, I think he wants to stop,” Trump said. “That was my question to him, because if he was going to go on that would have been a big problem fo
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