Trump tells Russia to ‘get moving’ on Ukraine peace negotiations | World News
US President Donald Trump called on Russia to accelerate ceasefire talks with Ukraine, warning that “too many people [are] DYING, thousands a week.”
“Russia has to get moving,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Friday, adding that the war was “a terrible and senseless” conflict.
He went on to describe the conflict as one that “should have never happened” and asserted that it would not have occurred under his presidency.
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His comments came ahead of a planned meeting between his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
“The painstaking work continues. Naturally, Witkoff, as a special representative of President Trump, will bring something from his president to Putin,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying Russia’s TASS news agency.
The US president’s growing frustration follows renewed ceasefire demands from Moscow, as both sides accuse each other of violating a fragile halt on attacks against energy infrastructure.
Talks to secure a ceasefire deal to end the Ukraine war have stalled amid negotiations on the conditions to end the conflict. At the end of March, Trump said he was “very angry” and “p****d off” after Putin criticised the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership.Story continues below this ad
Axios reported that Trump may consider new sanctions against Russia if no ceasefire agreement is reached the end of April.
Witkoff earlier met Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s envoy for international economic cooperation and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
On Thursday, Russia released US-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina in a prisoner exchange with the United States in Abu Dhabi.
Trump also shared a video of Karelina, who thanked him after being freed in a prisoner swap with Germany-based Arthur Petrov. “Glad to have you back home,” Trump wrote.
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