US President Donald Trump has described the Russian-American talks held in Riyadh as positive, stating that his confidence in the settlement in the Ukraine crisis has grown.
"Much more confident, they were very good," he told reporters after signing a number of his new executive orders in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
"Russia wants to do something. They want to stop the savage barbarianism," he added.
Trump noted that he intends to achieve peace in Ukraine, and the ceasefire is the initial stage. He did not rule out that he may meet with the Russian President by the end of the month. At the same time, the US president expressed his disappointment with the Ukrainian side.
Trump has expressed his disappointment over the fact that the Kiev regime was discontented by the Russia-US talks on settling the Ukraine crisis.
"And I'm very disappointed," he told reporters after signing a number of his new executive orders in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
"They're upset about not having a seat. Well, they've had a seat for three years, and a long time before that, this could have been settled very easily," Trump noted.
"Just a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago without, I think, without the loss of much land, very little land, without the loss of any lives, and without the loss of cities that are just laying on their sides," the US leader added.
Trump has pointed out that Kiev must hold a presidential election if it wants to sit down at the negotiating table to settle the Ukraine conflict and highlighted Vladimir Zelensky’s lack of popularity.
"We have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I mean, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4% approval rating. And where a country has been blown to smithereens, you got most of the cities are laying on their sides. The buildings are collapsed. It looks like a massive demolition site," the US leader told reporters after signing a number of his new executive orders in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
"I would say that, you know, when they want a seat at the table, you could say the people have to, wouldn't the people of Ukraine have to say, like, you know, it's been a long time since we've had an election. That's not a Russia thing. That's something coming from me and coming from many other countries also," the US president emphasized.
