US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP/ File Photo)
US President Donald Trump has said that he had “a good and very productive” phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his scheduled meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida later in the day.
Informing about the phone call with Putin and his meeting with Zelenskyy in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting, at 1:00 P.M. today, with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. The meeting will take place in the main dining room of Mar-a-Lago.”
Trump and Zelenskyy are scheduled to meet at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida, where the US president is spending the holidays and will be stationed until January 4. Zelenskyy, who arrived a few hours ago in Miami, said the two planned to discuss security and economic agreements in their meeting.
Zelenskyy said that he is poised to raise “territorial issues” with President Trump as Kyiv and Moscow remain fiercely at odds over the fate of Donbas region in the eastern Ukraine which the Kremlin has repeatedly said that Ukraine would have to let go.
Earlier on Saturday, during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Halifax, Zelenskyy said the key to peace is “pressure on Russia and sufficient, strong support for Ukraine.” Zelenskyy further added, “Ukraine is willing to do whatever it takes to stop this war. We need to be strong at the negotiating table,” AP reported.
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The Kremlin on Sunday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump think that Ukraine must make a decision on Donbas without delay and they do not support a European-Ukrainian push for a ceasefire ahead of a settlement, Reuters reported.
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US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP/ File Photo) 
