Trump assures that he will meet “very quickly” with Putin once he takes office in the US

He says that “there is only one strategy” to end the war in Ukraine and emphasizes that “it depends on Putin”

Jan. 14 () –

The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, has assured that he will meet “very quickly” with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, once he takes office on January 20, with the aim of addressing the end of the war with Ukraine.

“There is only one strategy (to end the war) and it depends on Putin. I can imagine that he is not enthusiastic about how things have gone, because they have not gone exactly well for him either,” said the republican tycoon in an interview with Newsmax.

“I know he wants to meet and I’m going to meet with him very quickly. I would have done it sooner, but frankly, you have to be in office. For some things, you have to be there,” said Trump, who he described as “horrible.” the war in Ukraine, unleashed by the invasion order given in February 2022 by Putin.

Thus, he specified that “soldiers have been swept to levels certainly not seen since the Second World War.” “That includes Russian soldiers,” he stressed, before adding that “Ukraine is being decimated and Ukrainian soldiers are dying in large numbers.”

“All cities look like places of demolition,” he said, while criticizing the fact that historical heritage is suffering. “History is being murdered. It is something that should not have happened,” said Trump, who has reiterated that the war would not have broken out if he had been in the White House instead of Joe Biden.

“I would have entered a room with Zelensky and Putin and we would have reached an agreement. Even if we had not reached an agreement, this would not have happened,” said the president-elect, who attributed what happened to “enormous incompetence” on the part of of Biden.

In this sense, he has emphasized that this position of the outgoing president “is the only reason why the war is taking place.” Finally, Trump has once again promised that, once he reaches the White House, he will do “everything possible to stop it – in reference to the conflict – for both countries.”