Trump highlights to Zelensky his good relationship with Putin and believes in being able to achieve “something good” for both parties

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September 27 () –

Former president of the United States Donald Trump has highlighted to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the good relationship they have with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and assures that he believes in being able to achieve “something good” for both parties even before he takes office. Presidency in case of winning the elections.

“We have a very good relationship, and I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin and I think that if we win, we will resolve it very quickly,” the Republican candidate for the White House said this Friday before meeting at the door. closed with President Zelensky in Trump Tower.

Trump has insisted, as he has been doing for months, that if he wins the November presidential election he is capable of reaching an agreement “that will be good for both sides,” reports .

“If the other side wins, I don’t think we’re going to have victories in anything, to be honest. So we will sit down and discuss it and, if we win, I think long before I, before January 20, take over the Presidency, long before that, I think we can reach something that is good for both parties,” he ventured.

Zelensky has expressed that he trusts he can have “good relations” with Trump, to which Trump responded that “it takes two to tango.” We are going to have a good meeting and I think that the fact that we are together is a very good sign,” said the former president of the United States.

For his part, the Ukrainian president has explained that their meeting is motivated by the fact that it does not matter who is in charge of the White House from November so that Ukraine continues with its idea of ​​ending the war.

“We understand that until November we cannot stop Putin. We have to do it. We will try on the battlefield with our heroic soldiers, but after November we have to decide and we hope for a strong United States,” he said.

Although they have agreed that the war must end, Trump assured after the meeting that “it is still early” to propose what a “fair” plan would be for both. “I have my own ideas and the president has his,” he said before Zelensky recalled that the Russians are on Ukrainian territory.

Zelensky thus responds to the more or less veiled insinuations that Trump has been suggesting about the possibility of Ukraine giving up part of the territories that have been occupied during the invasion, an extreme that kyiv is not willing to assume, as its authorities have reiterated. .

“This war should not have started. I think the problem is that Putin killed a lot of people and we must do everything possible to pressure him to stop this war. It is on our territory, that is the most important thing to understand: it is in our territory,” he stressed.