US President Donald Trump said efforts to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine from escalating further are “under control”.
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Trump cited his “good” relationships with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as key to negotiating an end to the war. He was speaking in an interview with Outkick, a website that combines sports talk with conservative politics and which is owned by Fox Corp.
“It would be a great thing to be able to stop it,” Trump said in the interview aboard Air Force One on Saturday. “I will say this, nobody else would have been able to. Nobody. Zero.”
Trump and Putin spoke in a call last Tuesday where the Russian leader said he would be willing to limit attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as a first step but did not agree to the full ceasefire that the US was pushing. A day later, Zelensky agreed in a call with Trump to a proposal for a mutual halt to strikes on energy assets.
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Trump said he knows Putin “very well”.
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