{"id":25219,"date":"2025-02-13T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/putin-and-trump-agree-on-ukraine-talks-to-frustrate-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:27:54","slug":"putin-and-trump-agree-on-ukraine-talks-to-frustrate-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/putin-and-trump-agree-on-ukraine-talks-to-frustrate-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Trump agree on Ukraine talks to frustrate Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5334560.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump had a phone conversation on Wednesday, both Moscow and Washington have confirmed. The talk lasted for about an hour and a half, during which the two leaders discussed a broad range of issues, primarily the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, according to RT.<\/p>\n<p>The phone call turned out to be \u201clengthy and highly productive,\u201d Trump said in a post on his Truth social media platform. \u201cWe discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects,\u201d the US president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders have agreed they \u201cwant to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia\/Ukraine,\u201d Trump said, announcing an \u201cimmediate\u201d start of negotiations to resolve the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s call represents the first official top-level contact between Moscow and Washington since Trump took office in January. While phone conversations between Trump and Putin have been rumored for weeks, none have been officially confirmed, with both sides stating only they had been maintaining contact through various unspecified government channels.<\/p>\n<p>European powers, including Britain, France, and Germany, have insisted they must be involved in any future negotiations on Ukraine\u2019s fate, stressing that only a fair agreement with security guarantees can ensure lasting peace. The statement follows Donald Trump\u2019s claim of imminent US-Russia negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations,\u201d seven European nations and the European Commission have stated after a Paris meeting.<\/p>\n<p>They emphasized that \u201cUkraine should be provided with strong security guarantees,\u201d adding that peace in Ukraine is crucial for transatlantic security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228276\/Putin-and-Trump-agree-on-Ukraine-talks-to-frustrate-Zelensky\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump had a phone conversation on Wednesday, both Moscow and Washington have confirmed. The talk lasted for about an hour and a half, during which the two leaders discussed a broad range of issues, primarily the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}