Trump says Zelenskyy and Putin must 'get together'
The Hindu
Trump urges Zelenskyy and Putin to negotiate peace in Ukraine, while seeking mineral access in exchange for aid.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday (February 21, 2025) that Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia's Vladimir Putin will have to "get together" to end the war between Moscow and Kyiv.
Mr. Trump's comments marked a shift from criticising Mr. Zelensky as a "dictator," after the Ukrainian president complained that his country — invaded by Russia in 2022 — had been left out of talks between U.S. and Russian officials.
"President Putin and President Zelenskyy are going to have to get together. Because you know what? We want to stop killing millions of people," Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Mr. Trump added Kyiv would "hopefully in the next fairly short period of time" sign a deal handing Washington preferential access to Ukraine's mineral deposits.
"They're very brave, in every way you can imagine. But we are spending our treasure on some country that's very, very far away," Mr. Trump said of Ukraine.
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Mr. Trump wants Ukraine to give U.S. companies access to its vast natural resources as compensation for the tens of billions of dollars of aid delivered under his predecessor Joe Biden.
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