KYIV: US President Donald Trump floated the idea that Ukraine "may be Russian someday", as his Vice President JD Vance gears up to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later this week.
US President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Sep 27, 2024, in New York before his return to the White House. KYIV: US President Donald Trump floated the idea that Ukraine"may be Russian someday", as his Vice President JD Vance gears up to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later this week.
Trump also emphasised reaping a return on investment with US aid to Ukraine, suggesting a trade for Kyiv's natural resources, such as rare minerals. Zelenskyy's spokesman Sergiy Nikiforov told AFP the Ukrainian president will meet with Vance this Friday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
Both Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin have previously ruled out direct talks with each other, and there appears to be little ground where the two could strike a deal. Russia says it has annexed five regions of Ukraine - Crimea in 2014 and then Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia in 2022 - though it does not have full control over them.
The US delegation is set to include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as well as Kellogg and Vance, MSC chair Christoph Heusgen told a Berlin press conference.The meeting comes with Russia advancing across Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, where it has captured several settlements - mostly completely flattened by months of Russian bombardments - over the past year.
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