Trump opens on his meeting with Zelenskyy in Rome
President Donald Trump shared on Sunday some of the contents of his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy outside Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome.
“I think the meeting went well. We will see what happens in the next few days, we will probably learn a lot,” Trump told reporters.
The two men spoke one by one on Saturday within the Basilica of San Pedro for the first time since their tense exchange of the oval office at the end of February, during which Trump accused the leader of the war of “Games of chance with World War II”.
When asked if he believes that his relationship has improved since that historical shock, Trump replied: “I think so.”
“We had a small dispute because I did not agree with something that said, and the cameras were rolling, and that was fine for me,” Trump said.
Zelenskyy now seems “quieter,” according to Trump.
“I think he understands the image, and I think he wants to make a deal,” he said.
Office of the President of Ukraine through Getty Images
Trump said one of the things Zelenskyy asked him during the talk was additional weapons.
“He told me he needs more weapons, but he has been saying it for three years,” Trump said. “I want to see what happens with respect to Russia.”
From his meeting with Zelenskyy, the president seems to have adopted a tougher tone against Russia.
Trump said he was “surprised and disappointed” that Moscow has launched great attacks against Ukraine amid conversations with the United States, including its greatest assault on kyiv since last summer, and added that it still plans to speak with Putin again.
“Well, I want me to stop shooting, feel and firm a deal,” he said about Putin. “I think we have the limits of a deal, and I want him to sign it and end him and return to life.”
At the beginning of this weekend, Trump said Russia’s attacks against Ukraine may show that Putin may not be serious about being ready to make peace.
“It makes me think that perhaps he does not want to stop war, he is only taking advantage of me and must be treated differently, through ‘bank’ or ‘secondary sanctions’,” Trump warned in a publication on his social platform of truth.
Even so, Trump said that Ukraine already agreed to offer Russia an important concession by giving Crimea control, although Zelenskyy said publicly last week that he has no plans to renounce the Peninsula that was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, reiterated on Sunday that the United States wants to see that an agreement occurs sooner rather than later.
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“This week will be a really important week in which we have to determine whether this is an effort in which we want to continue participating, or if it is time to focus on other issues that are equally, if not more, important in some cases, but we want it to happen,” said “Meet The Press” of NBC.
“There are reasons to be optimistic, but there are also reasons to be realistic, of course. We are close, but we are not close enough” in an agreement, Rubio added.