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Putin Has 'No Intention' of Honoring Agreements: Retired Admiral Mike Hewitt
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6:39Now PlayingUS President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin and urged the Russian leader to begin making plans for a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after meeting the Ukrainian president and European leaders at the White House on Monday.
The proposal — which Trump pitched as a one-on-one summit between Ukraine and Russia’s leaders that would be followed by a trilateral gathering involving all three — represented the latest turn in the US president’s push to broker a quick end to a conflict that has lasted over three years.
Retired Admiral Mike Hewitt, Co-Chair of the Ukraine Reconstruction Summit, discusses what to takeaway from the meetings President Trump had with President Zelensky & other European leaders in the White House. He also talks about the security guarantees President Trump got President Putin to agree on for Ukraine. Retired Admiral Mike Hewitt speaks with Tyler Kendall and Michael Shepard on the late edition of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power.”
Donald Trump urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy to show some “flexibility” as the US president accelerates his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
“I hope President Putin is going to be good, and if he’s not, it’s going to be a rough situation,” Trump said Tuesday in an interview on Fox News. “I hope that Zelenskiy, President Zelenskiy, will do what he has to do. He has to show some flexibility.”
Trump’s comments follow a whirlwind stretch as the US president pushes to bring Russia’s war against Ukraine — now in its fourth year — to an end. Trump held a summit in Alaska with Putin last week and talks at the White House with Zelenskiy and European allies on Monday.
Trump spoke with Putin again on Monday and urged him to begin making plans for a bilateral summit with Zelenskiy — a sitdown that would mark the first time those leaders meet face-to-face since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022. Trump said that if that meeting goes well, he’ll look to follow up with a trilateral summit alongside Putin and Zelenskiy.
“I think they’re doing okay. I wouldn’t say they are ever going to be best friends, but they’re doing okay, and we’re just going to see,” Trump said. “So we’re setting up a meeting. I sort of set it up with Putin and Zelenskiy, and, you know, they’re the ones that have to call the shots.”
The details of the plan, however, appear to still be in flux — with Trump acknowledging a time and location for a gathering had not yet been set, and Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov saying only that Trump and Putin had discussed the idea of direct talks with Zelenskiy.
A meeting between Putin and Zelenskiy could take place within two weeks, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told reporters Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron signaled the trilateral summit could happen within three weeks.
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