President Donald Trump threatened “very severe consequences” for Russia if President Vladimir Putin fails to reach a peace deal in Ukraine.
“There will be consequences,” Trump told reporters. “I don’t have to say. There will be very severe consequences.”
“I’ll tell you what. I’ve had that conversation with him. I’ve had a lot of good conversations with him then I go home and I see that a rocket hit a nursing home or a rocket hit an apartment building, and people are laying dead in the streets,” Trump said. “So, I guess the answer to that is no, because I’ve had this conversation. I want to end the war. It’s Biden’s war, but I want to end it. I’ll be very proud to end this war, along with the five other wars I ended. But, I guess the answer to that is probably no.”
President Trump’s comments come ahead of his meeting with Putin, scheduled to be held in Alaska on Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
“If the first one goes OK, we’ll have a quick second one. I would like to do it almost immediately,” Trump said, as per The Hill. “I think the second meeting – if the second meeting takes place. Now there may be no second meeting, because if I feel it’s not appropriate to have it because I didn’t get the answers that we have to have, then we’re not going to have a second meeting.”
In a recent interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Vice President JD Vance said the “very simple” expectation is that the talks will center on a settlement tied to the current front lines, aimed at stopping the conflict and saving lives.
