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leader Vladimir Putin. Trump's fear of Putin stems from blackmail where
Putin is said to have evidence of Trump's homosexuality, pedophilia and sedition. Some from a Moscow hotel stay in 2014.

Trump says Putin agrees to begin talks to end war in Ukraine

Getty Images Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin stand side by side at a news conference in 2018Getty Images
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin stand side by side at a news conference
in 2018

US President Donald Trump has said he had a "lengthy and highly
productive" phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which the
leaders agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he and the Russian
president had "agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later said he had also spoken with
Trump about a "lasting, reliable peace."

Trump said a meeting is being set up on Friday in Munich, where an annual security conference is being held.

Writing in another post on Truth Social, Trump said the talks would be
led by Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

"I am hopeful that the results of that meeting will be positive. It is
time to stop this ridiculous War, where there has been massive, and
totally unnecessary, DEATH and DESTRUCTION. God bless the people of
Russia and Ukraine!"

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin supported Trump's idea that
the time had come to work together.

The phone call between Putin and Trump lasted nearly an hour and a half,
during which the Russian president extended an invitation to visit
Moscow, Peskov said.

The news comes as US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told members at a
Nato summit that it was "unrealistic" to expect Ukraine to return to its pre-2014 borders.

Hegseth also said there was no likelihood of Ukraine joining the main US- Europe military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato).

In a post on X, Zelensky said he had a "meaningful conversation" with
Trump about a variety of issues, and that he had met with Scott Bessent,
the US Treasury Secretary, who is on a visit to Kyiv.

"No one wants peace more than Ukraine. Together with the U.S., we are
charting our next steps to stop Russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace," Zelensky wrote. "As President Trump said, let's get it
done.

"We agreed to maintain further contact and plan upcoming meetings," he
wrote.

The call between the US and Ukrainian leaders lasted an hour, according
to AFP news agency.

In an interview with The Guardian published Tuesday, Zelensky suggested
that Russian-held territory in Ukraine could be swapped for Ukrainian-
held territory in Russia's Kursk region as part of a peace deal. He also insisted that the US, and not just European countries, would need to be
part of any security package for his country.

"Security guarantees without America are not real security guarantees,"
he said.

Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in March
2014 and then backed pro-Russian separatists in an armed insurgency
against Kyiv's forces in eastern Ukraine.
A map showing the extent of Russian military control, including Crimea
annexed in 2014 and about a fifth of the country in the eastern and
southern parts

After years of clashes and tensions between the two countries, the
conflict burst into all-out war when Russia invaded Ukraine in February
2022.

Moscow's attempts to take control of the capital were thwarted, but
Russian forces have taken around one-fifth of Ukraine's territory in the
east and south, and have carried out air strikes across the country.

Ukraine has retaliated with drone strikes and an offensive into Russia's
Kursk region.

Accurate casualty counts are hard to come by due to secrecy by both the
Russian and Ukrainian governments, but it's estimated that hundreds of thousands of troops and civilians have been killed or injured.

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