02/12/2025

Trump Claims Zelenskiy and Putin Want Peace

He said a phone call has kicked off talks to end Russia's attack on Ukraine

Donald Trump said both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed a desire for peace in separate phone calls with him on Wednesday, and Trump ordered top U.S. officials to begin talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

The conversations came after Trump's defense secretary earlier said Kyiv would have to give up its long-held goals of joining the NATO military alliance and regaining all of its territory seized by Russia, signaling a dramatic shift in Washington's approach to the conflict.

After speaking with Putin for more than an hour, Trump said the Russian leader, who launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, wants the war to end and they discussed "getting a ceasefire in the not-too-distant future."

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