Trump: Putin ready for peace

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Updated 02.52 | Published 02.44

 

President Donald Trump says Putin is ready for peace. Photo: Alex Brandon /AP/TT

It is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, not Russia's Vladimir Putin, who is standing in the way of a peace agreement, claims US President Donald Trump.

In an interview with Reuters, Trump says that Putin is ready to make peace, almost four years after Russia invaded its neighboring country.

- I think he is ready to make a deal, I think Ukraine is less prepared to make a deal, Trump says.

When asked why the US-led negotiations between the countries have not yet resulted in a peace agreement, Trump replied:

- Zelenskyj.

Trump also says that he is prepared to meet the Ukrainian president at the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, but that there are no concrete plans for a meeting.

Zelensky has been clear that Ukraine will not agree to a peace agreement in which Russia gains control over the areas in Ukraine it annexed during the war.