Trump’s criticism after the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin was his strongest to date, and sparked new hope in Ukraine and beyond that the US leader could be adopting a different approach to a conflict he once promised to end on the first day of his presidency. “I want him to stop shooting, sit down and sign a deal,” Trump said of Putin on Sunday as he returned to Washington to begin what aides say will be a critical week in determining the future of US-led efforts to broker an end to the war. “The thing he was determined to do was to talk to Zelensky face-to-face and talk about how we’re going to get the largest land war in Europe to an end,” US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who was in Rome, said on Fox News.
Author: Kevin Liptak
Published at: 2025-04-27 22:28:43
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