Sources said Trump temporarily withdraws from peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Donald Trump

Donald Trump According to government officials familiar with the situation, intending to leave Russia and Ukraine to organize meetings between leaders without having a direct role, is the statement of government officials familiar with the situation, taking a step back from the negotiations to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Trump’s eyes to end the Ukrainian war is still Russian President Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr ZelenskyyOfficials said the Ukrainian president said.

Trump told advisers in recent days that he intends to hold a trilateral meeting with the two leaders only after the first meeting, although whether the preliminary meeting is unclear and that Trump does not intend to participate in the effort.

Trump said in a telephone interview with talk show host Mark Levin on Tuesday on WABC that he thought it would be better for Putin and Zelenskyy to meet without him first. “I just want to see what happens in the meeting. So they’re setting it up and we’re going to see what happens.”

Trump is reluctant to push Putin and Zelenskyy to the meeting because he admitted in recent days that ending the Ukrainian war is much more difficult than he expected. Say on the campaign trail Last year, he could achieve it in 24 hours.

After that, after his deadline ended, he sought a quick peace agreement to end the war this month and in his Meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders He held steps for a bilateral meeting at the White House on Monday.

A senior administration official described the situation as Trump taking a “waiting approach” about whether Putin-Zelensky’s meeting could be arranged. However, there are few signs of progress in recent days, with the White House not having a shortlist of places to attend the conference.

“Trump and his national security team continue to hold bilateral meetings with Russian and Ukrainian officials to stop the killings and end the war … Openly further negotiations on these issues are not in the national interest.”

Trump and Putin made a 40-minute call after the White House meeting. Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov later said the two leaders agreed to appoint more senior negotiators to Russia and Ukraine.

The statement shows that even if NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte expressed optimism, this could happen in two weeks, and Putin rejected Zelenskyy’s attempts to face-to-face since the war began.

Zelenskyy said in a Monday night press conference that European leaders’ meeting with Trump centered on security assurances in any peace agreement to ensure that Russia does not resume its invasion.

Trump offers to contribute to security guarantees, but has been Exclude the deployment of US military Become a part of Ukrainian ground military force. Any U.S. aid is expected to appear in the form of intelligence sharing or possibly U.S. air support.

Previously, at the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, Putin agreed that the United States could provide Ukraine with collective self-defense mandate as NATO Article 5, at the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, that Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff had said in CNN’s “Coalition”.

“We are able to win the following concession: The United States can provide protection similar to Article 5, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to appear in NATO,” Witkov said.

But Putin’s acceptance of NATO-style security assurance may not be that simple. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also suggested that Russia should be one of Ukraine’s security guarantors – a proposal privately ridiculed by the White House.

“The Ukrainian side proposed that at that time our delegation agreed to develop security assurances that would involve all permanent members of the UN Security Council, namely Russia, the People’s Republic of China, the United States, the United States, France and the United Kingdom,” Lavrov said.

After the White House meeting, Zelenskyy also outlined a plan to buy $90 billion in U.S. weapons through Europe to win security assurances and get the U.S. to buy drones from Ukraine. It is unclear whether the Ukrainian arms deal announced last month is part of the Ukrainian arms deal.