Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated he had a “good and productive” assembly with US President-elect Donald Trump and French chief Emmanuel Macron Saturday and that they needed the battle with Russia to finish quick and “in a simply manner.”
The trio met on the Elysee Palace in Paris, nearly three years into Moscow’s invasion and forward of Trump taking workplace within the US in January.
“I had an excellent and productive trilateral assembly with President Donald Trump and President Emmanuel Macron on the Elysee Palace,” Zelensky stated on social media.
“All of us need this battle to finish as quickly as attainable and in a simply manner,” he stated.
He thanked Macron for organising the assembly and stated: “President Trump is, as at all times, resolute. I thank him.”
Zelensky stated the trio had “agreed to proceed working collectively and hold involved.”
His workplace launched pictures of Zelensky shaking palms with Macron and Trump contained in the Elysee workplace.
PUNCH On-line experiences that Trump in September accused Ukraine’s chief, Volodymyr Zelensky of refusing to “make a deal” to finish his nation’s battle with Russia.
“We proceed to provide billions of {dollars} to a person who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky,” the Republican White Home candidate stated in sharply crucial remarks at a marketing campaign rally in North Carolina.
“Each time he got here to our nation, he’d stroll away with $60 billion,” Trump had stated, derisively describing the Ukrainian president as “in all probability the best salesman on Earth.”
“What do you will have left now?” Trump had sneered. “The nation is completely obliterated.”
In the meantime, particulars of the dialogue of the Saturday assembly among the many trios have but to be made public.
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