Donald Trump has stated {that a} assembly is being organized between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US president-elect gave no timeline for when the assembly would possibly happen.
“He needs to satisfy and we’re setting it up,” he stated in remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Russian information company Tass quotes Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying that the US has not but formally requested a gathering.
Trump has promised to barter an finish to the conflict in Ukraine quickly after he takes workplace on 20 January and has expressed scepticism about US army and monetary assist for Kyiv.
“President Putin needs to satisfy,” he stated on Thursday.
“He has stated that even publicly and we have now to get that conflict over with. That is a bloody mess.”
Trump has nominated Keith Kellogg, a former nationwide safety adviser and retired lieutenant-general within the US army, to be particular envoy to Ukraine and Russia for his second administration.
Kellogg set out his concepts for a way the US might result in an finish to the conflict in a analysis paper printed by the America First Coverage Institute, a pro-Trump suppose thank, in April final 12 months.
He proposed that Ukraine ought to solely get additional US help if it agreed to take part in peace talks with Moscow.
The paper additionally prompt, nonetheless, that if Moscow refused to participate then the US ought to proceed its help to Ukraine.
Following Trump’s election win in November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated he believed that, with Trump as president, the conflict would “finish sooner” than it in any other case would have.
He stated the 2 had had a “constructive alternate” by telephone, although didn’t say whether or not Trump had made any calls for concerning doable talks with Russia.
