Trump says Putin’s dislike of Zelensky delaying meeting between 2 leaders
The US president also said that he still believed a deal to end Russia’s war on Ukraine was in sight
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had talked to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin since meeting in Washington last week with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders.
Trump was last known to have spoken to Putin on August 18, when he interrupted his talks with Zelensky and the Europeans at the White House to call the Russian leader.
“Yes, I have,” Trump told reporters when asked if he had talked to Putin since then.
Asked how the latest talks went, Trump replied: “Every conversation I have with him is a good conversation. And then, unfortunately, a bomb is loaded up into Kyiv or someplace, and I get very angry about it.”
Trump also held a landmark summit with Putin in Alaska on August 15 in a bid to seal a deal to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
After their previous call on August 18, Trump said Putin had agreed to hold a bilateral meeting with Zelensky, but Moscow has since said there are no plans for such talks.