The US President, Donald Trumpsaid ready to meet with Vladimir Putin Even though his Russian counterpart refuses to see Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, who insists he wants to negotiate directly with him.
The deadline set out within the week, Donald Trump in Russia to end the war in Ukraine or undergo serious financial sanctions expires today (08.08.2025 Friday, but it is not clear how he intends to go through the new attempts to hold on to the new attempts.
President Trump had addressed Russia an ultimatum, which was typically exiled today, to close an agreement with Ukraine to end the war, on a penalty of very harsh financial sanctions if it did not proceed.
Trump promised to impose new sanctions on Russia this week earlier, even though he questioned their effectiveness. The White House announced on Wednesday that it still intends to impose “secondary sanctions” on countries that continue to buy Russian energy.
However, yesterday – after preparations began to try to meet Vladimir Putin face -to -face – the US president was less binding.
“It will depend on him,” Trump said, referring to Putin, when asked if his deadline is still in force and whether the new measures would be implemented.
The complications of the imposition of new sanctions in Moscow, while preparing possible talks with Putin, emphasized only the uncertainty about the war in Ukraine.
Trump is very careful not to give the impression that Putin is dragged, for which – as he has stated – he feels more and more frustration. However, he is willing to reach a peace agreement and seems open to listening to the Russian leader. US officials said on Thursday that nothing has been finalized, including the form, date or place of talks.
Asked by a journalist at the Oval Office if he believes Vladimir Putin would accept to meet with Volodimir Zelenski before seeing him, Republican billionaire Donald Trump responded “no”. Before he adds that “they want to meet me, and I will do everything I can to stop the murders.”
Yesterday (07.08.2025) the Kremlin spoke of a “in principle agreement” to have a Putin-Trump meeting in the following days, but ruled out the possibility of a trilateral meeting with Volodimir Zelenski, which he wishes to do.
The “conditions” are not met for the Russian Presidency to organize a meeting with the Ukrainian president. Yesterday Wednesday Donald Trump reported a meeting with the Russian president “very soon”. It would be the first after returning to the White House in January.
The latest face -to -face meeting of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was held in 2019, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Japan.
The Republican resumed contacts with his Russian counterpart by nourishing the hope that he would quickly end the war that broke out with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but does not hide his “frustration” in recent weeks.