Washington.- The US President, Donald Trump, considered it positive that his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, have exchanged messages directly and expressed his conviction that the negotiations between Moscow and Kiev will end up prospering.
“Let them negotiate. I am the one who got them into this position and I think that is going to work,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked about the proposal launched by Zelensky to hold direct talks with Putin.
“I believe we are close to Russia and Ukraine ending a war that should never have happened. I believe that will be resolved,” the president added.
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Trump’s statements come after Putin ruled out this Friday Zelensky’s offer -who sent the Russian president a letter- to meet in a third country to address the end of the conflict, something Moscow has always opposed.
“For now, I don’t see the point,” Putin said bluntly during the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, while labeling the epistolary style chosen by Zelensky as “rude.”
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Putin admitted to having glanced at the content of the letter sent to him by the Ukrainian president and asserted that his impression is not to “create the conditions” for a meeting between leaders to take place, but quite the opposite, to make it “impossible”.
“You can end your war”, says Zelensky in the letter, where he states that European countries must also participate in the negotiations, a mediation rejected again by Putin on Thursday.
According to the document, the first step must be a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange starting with the civilians and children kidnapped by Russia.
The last time both countries negotiated, albeit indirectly, was in mid-February 2026, with the mediation of the United States, a few weeks before it went to war with Iran.
