Trump Envoys Meet Putin Amid Ukraine War; Russia Launches Airstrikes

Meeting with Putin

• 🇺🇸 President Trump stated that his envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, had a "very good meeting" with President Putin in the Kremlin, lasting nearly five hours.
• 🗣️ Trump believes Putin wants to end the Ukraine war, noting that his team's impression was that Putin would like to make a deal and return to a more normal life.
• ⚠️ Despite the positive assessment of the meeting, Trump cautioned that it's too early to judge, stating, "it does take two to tango."

Ukraine's Stance and Russian Response

• 🇺🇦 Moscow dismissed parts of the US proposal that involved Ukraine ceding areas of Donbas.
• 💥 Hours after Trump claimed Putin wanted to make a deal, Russia launched heavy airstrikes on Sloviansk, injuring eight people.
• 🤝 Ukraine's negotiator, Rustem Umerov, is scheduled to meet the US team in Miami for follow-up talks.

Trump's Perspective on the War

• 💔 Trump expressed that the war "should have never been started" and claimed that if he were president, the war would have never happened and Ukraine would have retained 100% of its territory.
• 📉 He suggested that Putin would prefer to be trading with the United States instead of losing thousands of soldiers weekly.