US President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he wanted to speak to his Russian counterparts, Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian counterparts, Volodymyr Zelensky, to stop the “carnage” of the war in Ukraine, after the master of the Kremlin welcomed the advance of his troops on the front.
Donald Trump, who is due to take office in January, promised during his election campaign to end the war quickly, and has already called for an “immediate ceasefire” and talks, so much so that Europeans and Ukrainians fear he could force major concessions from kyiv and hand the Kremlin a geopolitical victory.
“We're going to talk to President Putin and we're going to talk (to) Zelensky and (the) representatives of Ukraine. We have to stop this, it’s carnage,” Donald Trump said Monday from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. “A large part of this territory, when we look at what happened… There are towns where there is not a building standing, it is a demolition site (…). So people cannot return to these cities, there is nothing left,” declared the future American president.
