Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had a “good and productive” meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron Saturday and that they wanted the war with Russia to end fast and “in a just way.”
The PUNCH reports that the trio met at the Elysee Palace in Paris, almost three years into Moscow’s invasion and ahead of Trump taking office in the US in January.
“I had a good and productive trilateral meeting with President Donald Trump and President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace,” Zelensky said on social media.
“We all want this war to end as soon as possible and in a just way,” he said.
He thanked Macron for organising the meeting and said: “President Trump is, as always, resolute. I thank him.”
Zelensky said the trio had “agreed to continue working together and keep in contact.”
His office released images of Zelensky shaking hands with Macron and Trump inside the Elysee office.
PUNCH Online reports that Trump in September accused Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky of refusing to “make a deal” to end his country’s war with Russia.
“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky,” the Republican White House candidate said in sharply critical remarks at a campaign rally in North Carolina.
“Every time he came to our country, he’d walk away with $60 billion,” Trump had said, derisively describing the Ukrainian president as “probably the greatest salesman on Earth.”
“What do you have left now?” Trump had sneered. “The country is absolutely obliterated.”
Meanwhile, details of the discussion of the Saturday meeting among the trios have yet to be made public.
