Trump says Russia-Ukraine deal is close after meeting Putin's envoy
US President Donald Trump said on 5 November that a Russia-Ukraine settlement is 'very close' after meeting Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House, telling reporters a 'big agreement' could involve more than Ukraine and 'all of Europe'.
US President Donald Trump said on 5 November that a Russia-Ukraine settlement is 'very close' after meeting Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House, telling reporters a 'big agreement' could involve more than Ukraine and 'all of Europe'.
Trump said he did not meet the Ukrainian officials who were also at the White House for a Melania Trump event marking a local humanitarian ceasefire around Oleshky. He gave no details of the talks with Dmitriev, Al Jazeera and AP reported.
No text of any deal has been published. Ukrainian and European officials were separately holding talks with US envoys at NATO headquarters in Brussels the same day.
The meeting followed an event hosted by Melania Trump for Russian and Ukrainian representatives, marking a six-day local truce in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky that ran from 27 October to 1 November and allowed nearly 800 civilians to be evacuated. Trump did not attend that event. Al Jazeera noted that he has often predicted an agreement was close, although negotiations have picked up in recent weeks.