MADRID, 16 (EUROPA PRESS)
US President Donald Trump has maintained that reaching a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine "now depends" on Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky, following the "productive" face-to-face meeting between the White House resident and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
"It's really up to President Zelenskyy to get it done (a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia), and I would also say that European nations need to get involved a little bit, but it's up to President Zelenskyy," the US president said in an interview on Fox News shortly after the bilateral summit ended.
Trump preferred not to make public the disagreements between the two sides during the meeting, although he stated that they would soon be revealed. He also confirmed that there are "one or two significant issues" on which they differ, but that he believes they can be resolved.
In this regard, he has left the responsibility for future progress in the hands of the Ukrainian president. "It's still not resolved at all, and Ukraine has to agree—I mean, President Zelensky has to agree—but it's a terrible war in which a lot is being lost, and both sides are losing a lot," Trump said.
Regarding a future trilateral summit between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine with their leaders present, the American president maintained that they want him to be there. "I don't think I was even asked. It's not that I want to be there, but I want to make sure it happens," he asserted.
Trump and Putin claimed Friday to have made progress on several issues—although this has not been disclosed—but no agreement has been reached on the war in Ukraine. They scheduled a second meeting, without a set date, in a joint press conference without questions from journalists after their meeting in the US city of Anchorage, Alaska.
