Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Vladimir Putin on Friday, January 24, of trying to “manipulate” Donald Trump, after the strong man of the Kremlin welcomed the return to power of the republican billionaire in the White House and said he was Ready to meet him to negotiate on Ukraine.
kyiv had previously warned against any negotiations not involving Ukraine itself and the Westerners.
“He wants to manipulate the desire of the President of the United States of America to reach peace,” said Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily message on social networks.
“No Russian manipulation can now succeed”
According to the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Putin, who launched his massive invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, is actually ready to continue the war and “manipulate international leaders”.
“I am convinced that no Russian manipulation can now succeed,” he added.
Moscow, kyiv and their allies watch for the unpredictable tenant of the White House on the Ukrainian conflict, to which he has repeatedly claimed to end without ever explaining his intentions. A conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, discussed for a long time but not yet materialized, is perceived as an important step. For the past week, both the Kremlin and the White House have been wanting to want this dialogue.
-The American president “said that he was ready to work together,” Vladimir Putin satisfied on Friday during an interview on state television. “We have always said, and I want to emphasize it again, that we are ready for these negotiations on Ukrainian issues,” he added.
Earlier, spokesperson for the Russian presidency Dmitri Peskov had said to wait for “signals” from Washington on the subject. But it did not give any indication as to the calendar or the nature of these signals. President Trump told him on Thursday to be ready to meet Vladimir Putin “as soon as possible” or even “immediately”.
Denouncing “a ridiculous war”, he assured that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was “ready to negotiate an agreement”. Vladimir Putin assured him that the “crisis in Ukraine” of 2022, the year of the beginning of the conflict, could have been avoided if Donald Trump “had been president, if he had not been stolen from the victory in 2020”.
He thus resumed his account of the unfounded statements of the American president on alleged electoral fraud in 2020.
Original article published on bfmtv.com
