President Donald Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday and said he thinks the call “went very well.”
Following the two-hour conversation, Trump said “Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire and, more importantly, an end to the war.”
The conditions to end the war “will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of,” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social.
The president called the “tone and spirit” of the long conversation “excellent,” adding, “If it wasn’t, I would say so now, rather than later.”
Russia would like to “do large-scale trade with the United States” when the war is over, Trump said, noting that he agrees with such a plan.
“There is a tremendous opportunity for…
