Trump and Putin to hold phone call ‘in coming days and weeks,’ U.S. national security advisor nominee says
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to hold a phone call “in the coming days and weeks,” Trump’s nominee for national security advisor, Mike Waltz, told ABC News on Sunday.
Waltz described the call as the “first step” toward a potential future meeting between Trump and Putin, adding that preparations for such a meeting are already “underway.”
Asked whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would be involved in the meeting, Waltz said, “We haven’t set the exact framework for it yet. We’re working on that.”
We would like to see a ceasefire any minute, any day. I think that would be an incredibly positive first step on both sides. And that would then allow us to enter into the framework of some time of negotiated solution here. Everybody knows that this has to end somehow diplomatically.
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