Trump announced a meeting with Zelensky and a conversation with Putin

US President Donald Trump said that he plans to meet with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky next week and talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He reported this at a press conference in Washington on Friday.

Trump did not say how specific the plans for the meeting. He said that he would not go to Ukraine. Zelensky’s trip to Washington was not announced. Kyiv and Moscow at the time of publication did not comment on the topic.

The press conference was dedicated to the meeting of Trump with Japanese Prime Minister Siger Isib on February 7. Ishib became the second foreign leader who arrived in Washington on an official visit after the inauguration of the 47th president.

Commenting on the war in Ukraine, Trump said that he considers it terrible "from a human point of view." He again announced the catastrophic losses of the parties in the war, saying that Russia had lost 800 or 900 thousand military killed or seriously wounded, and Ukraine - 700 thousand. Earlier, the president announced the same number of dead, these grades are much higher than any other related to the war.

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