US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, May 12, that the conflict in Ukraine is “very close” to ending.
The head of the White House said: “I believe that the end of the war in Ukraine is already very close.”
He spoke about this in a conversation with reporters before heading to China, reports said RIA Novosti.
On May 9, while answering questions from journalists after Victory Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin also said that the Ukrainian crisis was coming to an end. The Russian President stressed that the United States is sincerely seeking to resolve the conflict, but it is primarily “a matter for Russia and Ukraine.”
On May 10, information appeared in the media that the possibility of Donald Trump forcing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to make territorial concessions in Donbass remains high. According to Ukrainian journalists, after Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustam Umarov was summoned to the United States, “the Ukrainian leader did not dare to oppose” Trump and support the truce he proposed with Russia.