The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that Moscow and kyiv want to end the war in Ukraine and that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is more inclined towards peace after the recent fall in the price of oil.
«I think Russia, with the current price of oil, which has dropped, we are in a good position to reach an agreement, they want to reach an agreement. Ukraine wants to reach an agreement, ”Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
The price of oil, which promotes the Russian economy, has fallen around $ 15 per barrel since the beginning of the year. OPEC+ will accelerate the increase in oil production, according to reuters.
“We have traveled a long way and something could happen, but hopefully it is,” Trump said.
Putin ordered the sending of thousands of Russian soldiers to Ukraine in February 2022, which triggered the greatest land conflict in Europe since World War II and the greatest confrontation between Moscow and the West from the deepest of the cold war.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have died or resulting injured and Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to end the “massacre” that his administration describes as proxy war between the United States and Russia.
Trump said Putin had proposed a high three -day fire to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over Nazi Germany in World War II.
“As you know, President Putin has just announced a high three -day fire, which does not seem much, but it is much if they know where we start,” Trump said. “This is a war that should never have happened.”
Trump said the death toll in the war was much greater than that informed by most media. None of the parties in public conflict updated figures of victims.
The Kremlin, when asked Monday about a possible meeting between Trump and Putin in Saudi Arabia, said that a meeting was necessary, but that Putin did not have planned to travel to the Middle East in mid -May. Trump has said he plans to visit Saudi Arabia in early May.
A journalist asked Trump if he would order an investigation into the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022.
On September 26, 2022 there was a strong pressure drop in the gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea and the seismologists detected explosions, which triggered a wave of speculations about who sabotaged the billionaire project that transported Russian gas to Germany.
“They said Russia flew it, yes,” Trump said in comments that indicated that he doubted that Moscow was behind the attack. “I think many people know who flew it.”
The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have reported that Ukraine, which has repeatedly denied its involvement, is behind the attack. Ukraine has repeatedly denied its involvement.
Russia has accused Western powers, including the United States and Britain, of being involved in the attack, but has not published any proof that supports its theory. (Information by Guy Faulconbridge; Michael Perry edition)
