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 speak Monday (19.5.2025) with Vladimir Putin at 10am (local time, 17.00 in Greece).
“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 the intention of Trump European leaders wanted to talk to the US president Before he spoke with Putin, sources from the German government said.
According to German media, Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Kir Starmer asked to talk to Donald Trump on Sunday night, without knowing if they finally succeeded.
At the same time, the same sources reported that the Chancellor, on the sidelines of the enthronement ceremony of Pope Leo 14th, met in Rome with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Volodimir Zelenski, with whom he discussed him.
Mertz did not meet with US Vice President Jay Di Vance, who was also in Rome, as opposed to Volodimir Zelenski who saw Vance for “about half an hour”.