An advisor close to US President-elect Donald Trump said they hope a phone call between the incoming president and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will take place soon.
US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to speak by phone in the coming days or weeks, and it is unrealistic to expel Russian soldiers from every inch of Ukrainian territory, according to a report. Trump's senior advisor.
Trump, who will return to the US presidency on January 20, considers himself a great negotiator and has promised to quickly end the war in Ukraine, but has not explained how he would achieve it.
U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz, the next national security adviser, told the network on Sunday ABC that the war had become a World War I-style “meat grinder of people and resources,” with “consequences for a Third World War,” according to ABC.
“Everyone knows that this has to end in some diplomatic way,” he told ABC Waltz, a Trump loyalist who also served in the National Guard as a colonel.
“I just don't think it's realistic to say that we're going to expel all the Russians from every inch of Ukrainian soil, like in Crimea. President Trump has recognized that reality, and I think it's been a huge step forward for the entire world to recognize that.” reality. Now let's move forward.”
Asked specifically about contacts between Trump and Putin, Waltz said: “I do expect a call in at least the next few days and weeks. So that would be one step and we'll go from there.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has left tens of thousands dead, displaced millions of people and triggered the biggest rupture in relations between Moscow and the West since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
U.S. officials call Russia a corrupt autocracy that constitutes the greatest nation-state threat to the United States and has meddled in U.S. elections, imprisoned U.S. citizens on trumped-up charges, and carried out sabotage campaigns against U.S. allies. .
Russian leaders say the United States is a declining power that has repeatedly ignored Russia's interests since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, and that sowing discord within Russia is an attempt to divide Russian society and favor conflicts. interests of the United States.