United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that there could be “big consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky do not agree to meet.
“Sp, we’ll see what happens over the next week or two, and at that point I’ll step in. And if I have to be there, I’ll be there. We’ll either have the deal or we won’t, but a lot of people are dying and I want get this done,” Trump told reporters during his meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.
The US president reiterated that the two presidents should meet before he joins their meeting to “probably close the deal.” He said that while Putin and Zelensky “do not exactly get along well,” the Russian president “perhaps wasn’t happy about coming to the US either,” but he did it.