Consultation fever prevails in the White House, shortly before Donald Trump talked directly to the Vladimir Putin For the war in Ukraine.
Donald Trump himself revealed on Sunday (18.5.2025) that he will talk to Vladimir Putin today at 10am (local time, 17.00 Greek time).
“The issues of the phone call will be the interruption of the blood bath that kills on average more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week and trade,” he said in a post on Truth Social.
In the same post, Trump revealed that after a phone call with Putin there will be a phone call with Volodimir Zelenski and then have a telephone contact with various NATO members.
At the same time, Dmirti Peskov noted that preparations were underway in the Kremlin for the conversation between Putin and Trump.
“A conversation is being prepared,” Peskov told news agencies following Trump Social’s post.
Europe ‘calls’ Trump
From the first moment that Trump’s intention was made known, European leaders wanted to talk to the US president before he spoke with Putin, German government sources said.
According to German media, Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Kir Starmer have asked to speak Sunday night with Donald Trump, without knowing if they did.
At the same time, the same sources also said that the Chancellor, on the sidelines of the enthronement ceremony of Pope Leo 14th, met today in Rome with US Secretary of State Marko Rubio and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski.
Mertz did not meet with US Vice President Jay Di Vance, who was also in Rome. “We can only hope that progress will now be achieved,” the Chancellor said.
However, Volodimir Zelenski met in Rome with the US Vice President and talked about “about half an hour” after a meeting with Pope Leo in the 14th in the Vatican.