The newly elected US President Donald Trump said that he is looking forward to meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
“President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible. We have to end this war“, Trump said at the AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona. He again said that the Ukrainian conflict would not have broken out if he had been the president of the United States at the time.
On December 19, Putin said that he was ready to talk to Trump at any time and agreed to meet with him. He noted that he did not know when he would meet with Trump.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that Moscow was ready for contacts with Washington to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, but had not yet received any serious proposals from Trump's team.