During his election campaign just like getting the Gaza Ceasefire implemented before his inauguration, which he did, Trump had also promised to get the Russia-Ukraine war ended within 100-days of him taking over the US Presidency.

Curiously, within days of Trump becoming the 47th US President, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is ready to discuss the war in Ukraine with Donald Trump and suggested it would be a good idea for them to meet. In his first comments since Trump issued threats to inflict economic damage on Russia if it failed to end the war in Ukraine, Putin struck a favourable tone towards the US president.

Putin and the newly inaugurated American president have both said they are ready to meet for talks on Ukraine. Trump has threatened Russia with tougher economic sanctions if Moscow does not agree to end the conflict.

Putin has told a Russian state TV journalist that “We believe the current president’s statements about his readiness to work together. We are always open to this and ready for negotiations. It would be better for us to meet, based on the realities of today, to talk calmly.”

Putin went on to describe his relationship with Trump as “businesslike, pragmatic and trustworthy”. He added that negotiating with Ukraine was complicated by the fact that its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had signed a decree preventing him from conducting talks with Putin.

In what seems to be an effort to further cosy-up to Trump, Putin echoed the US president’s claim that he would have prevented the war starting in Ukraine in 2022, and parroted Trump’s discredited assertion........

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