Trump says he personally requested Putin to spare Ukrainian lives in ‘good and productive’ talks | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Friday mentioned he’d spoken to Russian president Vladimir Putin by cellphone and claimed that he requested the Russian chief to order his troops to not commit a bloodbath of Ukrainian troopers who they’re making an attempt to dislodge from the Kursk area after months of occupation by Kyiv’s forces.

In a submit on his Truth Social web site, Trump described his dialog with the Russian chief — the second name the 2 have held because the American president returned to workplace in January — as “very good and productive discussions” and mentioned there was “a very good chance” that the three-year-old warfare Putin began in opposition to Ukraine with out provocation by sending Russian forces throughout his nation’s western frontier may “finally come to an end” on account of talks he initiated with Putin as a part of a U.S. coverage shift which has left Washington extra aligned with Moscow than with any of America’s democratic allies.

Trump additionally repeated a Russian declare to have utterly encircled Ukrainian forces within the Kursk area after expelling them from Sudzha, one of many largest cities within the area, and mentioned the Ukrainian troopers have been “in a very bad and vulnerable position” prone to “a horrible massacre” by the hands of Russia, the likes of which haven’t been seen because the finish of the Second World War in Europe.

“I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared,” Trump mentioned.

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