Former President Donald Trump said he spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone on Friday and vowed to end the war with Russia.
in statement In a post on Truth Social on Friday, Trump said he had a “very good call” with Zelensky, in which he congratulated the former president on once again becoming the Republican nominee for the US presidency, and condemned the “heinous assassination attempt” on his life last Saturday.
“I thank President Zelenskyy for his cooperation. As the next President of the United States, I intend to bring peace to the world and end a war that has taken so many lives and destroyed countless innocent families,” Trump wrote.
“The two sides can work together to negotiate an agreement that ends the violence and paves the way for prosperity.”
The Ukrainian president acknowledged a phone call with a leading candidate for the 2024 presidential election. write “We have agreed to meet privately with President Trump to discuss what steps need to be taken to ensure a just, truly lasting peace,” Zelensky said in a post on Twitter.
“I recognize the significant bipartisan, bicameral American support in protecting our nation’s freedom and independence,” he said.
“Ukraine will always be grateful for the U.S.’s assistance in strengthening our capabilities to counter Russian terrorism. Russian attacks on our cities and villages continue every day.”
“We have agreed to meet privately with President Trump to discuss what steps need to be taken to ensure a just and truly lasting peace.”
Ahead of the call, Zelensky said this week that he would “work with” Trump if he won the White House in November.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that he fears a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House. https://t.co/obnkDTOJyq
—Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 4, 2023
Last week, the former president hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to discuss the war in Ukraine.
This comes after Orban, who currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, met with EU representatives in Beijing, Istanbul and Moscow as part of a series of peace missions.
The Hungarian leader has been one of the most vocal critics of the Western response to the Ukraine war and a leading advocate of opening peace talks between the Kremlin and Kiev.
Following talks with Presidents Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Orban released the letter detailing his assessment of the current situation and recommendations for the future of the European Union.
Prime Minister of Hungary Warned There is a growing view that “we will see a rapid escalation of military conflict in the near future.”
“I have personally witnessed that the warring parties are determined to get even deeper into the conflict and neither side wants to engage in a ceasefire or peace negotiations,” he said. “So we can assume that tensions will not ease and that the parties will not start looking for a way out of the conflict without significant outside involvement.”
Obran said President Trump, who is likely to win the November election, would be “ready to act as a peace broker immediately” if he wins and would not wait until he takes office, adding that he “has a detailed and well-founded plan for this.”
Therefore, he argued, the EU should start shifting its strategy to one of making “efforts to reduce tensions, create conditions for a temporary ceasefire and start peace negotiations” rather than emulating the Biden administration’s “pro-war policy.”
‘Bring back Trump!’ Hungarian PM Orban tells Tucker that only Trump can end Ukraine war and ‘save the Western world’ https://t.co/1OQf4px2sK
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 30, 2023
