A News Agency

President Trump said he held a two-hour meeting with Russian President Putin and believed the meeting went very well.

Emphasizing that negotiations to end the war would begin, Trump said, “The terms will be negotiated between the two sides, because this can only happen if they know the details of a negotiation that no one else will be aware of.”

Trump described the tone and spirit of the meeting with Putin as excellent, and added:

“If it wasn’t, I’d say so now, not later. Russia wants to do large-scale trade with the United States once this disastrous ‘bloodbath’ ends – and I agree. There’s a tremendous opportunity for Russia to generate massive jobs and wealth. The potential is limitless. Similarly, Ukraine can be a major beneficiary in trade during the rebuilding of its country.”

Trump stated that negotiations between Russia and Ukraine would begin immediately: “Right after my conversation with President Putin, I informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.”

He added that the Vatican, represented by the Pope, expressed a strong willingness to host the negotiations: “Let the process begin!”