{"id":28193,"date":"2025-05-24T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28193"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:17:15","slug":"president-donald-j-trump-announced-he-will-speak-with-russian-president-vladimir-putin-with-a-goal-of-stopping-the-bloodbath-of-dying-soldiers-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28193","title":{"rendered":"President Donald J. Trump announced he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin with a goal of \u2018stopping the bloodbath\u2019 of dying soldiers in Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump says he will be speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday about ending the war in Ukraine, saying the call at 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT) would be about \u201cstopping the \u2018bloodbath&#8217;\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1768373\" data-uid=\"02851\">\n<div id=\"mgw1768373_02851\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\" data-template-type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\">\n<p>In a post on Truth Social, the US president said he would then speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and leaders of some Nato countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liptalkin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-17-at-19.04.31_84bfc3ed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-962\" src=\"http:\/\/liptalkin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-17-at-19.04.31_84bfc3ed.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liptalkin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-17-at-19.04.31_84bfc3ed.jpg 720w, https:\/\/liptalkin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-17-at-19.04.31_84bfc3ed-240x300.jpg 240w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia and Ukraine were unable to reach any breakthrough when they held their first face-to-face talks in three years in Istanbul on Friday, although a prisoner swap was agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The US president had offered to attend the talks in Turkey if Putin would also go, but his Russian counterpart did not take up the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments come after he suggested on Thursday that progress on ending the war would only happen if he and Putin held face-to-face talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should have never happened, will end,\u201d Trump wrote on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nato leaders have been calling for Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Following the talks in Istanbul, Ukraine reiterated its call for a full and unconditional ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Russian delegation, Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky, said the Russian delegation was satisfied with the talks and ready to continue contact.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, a Russian drone hit a passenger bus in the Sumy region, killing nine people \u2013 prompting Zelensky to demand stiffer sanctions on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>He said the attack on the bus was \u201ca deliberate killing of civilians\u201d. Russia has not commented, but state media reported that forces had hit a \u201cmilitary staging area\u201d in Sumy province.<\/p>\n<p>Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Donald Trump says he will be speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday about ending the war in Ukraine, saying the call at 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT) &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28195,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28193\/revisions\/28195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}