{"id":1287355,"date":"2025-08-30T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/they-ll-have-to-fight-again-trump-not-sure-if-zelenskyy-and-putin-will-meet\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:10:44","slug":"they-ll-have-to-fight-again-trump-not-sure-if-zelenskyy-and-putin-will-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/they-ll-have-to-fight-again-trump-not-sure-if-zelenskyy-and-putin-will-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey\u2019ll have to fight again\u201d: Trump not sure if Zelenskyy and Putin will meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is not sure whether a bilateral meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin at the leadership level will take place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/08\/30\/donald-trump-daily-caller-interview-russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-putin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in an interview with the Daily Caller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump has expressed skepticism about a bilateral meeting, comparing the Ukrainian and Russian leaders to children playing on a playground. At the same time, he is confident that a trilateral meeting will definitely take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;As for bilaterals, I don&#8217;t know, but trilaterals will happen,&#8221; the US president assured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking about the meeting between Zelensky and Putin, he added that sometimes &#8220;people are not ready for this.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSometimes they have to fight a little bit before you can get them to stop. But this has been going on for a long time. A lot of people are dead,\u201d the American leader noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the summit in Alaska, he \u201creally believed\u201d that the war could be ended immediately, but now Trump understands that Ukraine and Russia \u201chave yet to go to war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, the American president commented on future security guarantees for Kyiv. According to him, Europe, with the help of the United States, will provide a military presence, but Washington will not deploy its contingent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Trump emphasized that the United States is not giving weapons to Ukraine for free, but is selling them to NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe sell NATO equipment. We don\u2019t sell it to Ukraine. We sell it to NATO. They pay for the equipment. We don\u2019t spend money on war,\u201d he concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall, Trump said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/mozhlyvo-dovedetsia-zminyty-pidkhid-tramp-ozvuchyv-novyy-termin-dlia-zavershennia-viyny-v-ukraini\/\">within the next two weeks it will become clear whether peace can be achieved in Ukraine<\/a> . If this does not happen, he warned about the possibility of finding &#8220;another approach&#8221; to resolving the war.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-vidmovliaietsia-pryiednuvatysia-do-perehovoriv-bez-poperednoi-zustrichi-zelenskoho-z-putinym\/\">Trump wants Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin to first hold a personal meeting<\/a> . Only after that is he ready to join the trilateral format of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is not sure whether a bilateral meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin at the leadership level will take place. He said this in an interview with the Daily Caller. Trump has expressed skepticism about a bilateral meeting, comparing the Ukrainian and Russian leaders to children playing on a playground. 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