Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was prepared to have talks with the Republican president-elect on Thursday, congratulated Trump on his victory in the U.S. election, and commended him for his bravery in the face of an assassination attempt.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July, Putin made his first public comments since Trump’s victory, claiming that Trump had behaved like a genuine man after an attempted assassination.
At the Valdai debate club in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin stated, “I think he acted in a very right way, bravely, like a real man.” This is my chance to congratulate him on winning the election.
Putin claimed that Trump’s comments regarding Ukraine and repairing ties with Russia during the election campaign merited notice.
Putin stated, “I think this deserves attention at least.” He also mentioned the need to mend relations with Russia and settle the Ukrainian problem.
Trump claimed during his campaign that if won, he could bring about peace in Ukraine in a day. However, he has not provided many specifics about how he would try to put an end to the largest land battle in Europe since World battle Two.
The 72-year-old head of the Kremlin issued a single warning: “I don’t know what’s going to happen now.” I don’t know.
Putin stated that he was prepared to resume contacts if a Trump administration desired it and was open to talks with Trump when asked what he would do if Trump called to propose a meeting.
Some suggestions in Western media that Trump was a kind of Russian influence agent have been repeatedly rejected as absurd by both Russia and Trump. According to Russian sources, Trump was harsh on Russia throughout his first term, which ran from 2017 to 2021.
In a 2019 report, Special Counsel Robert Mueller stated he had not discovered any proof of conspiracy after looking into claims of collaboration between Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Additionally, Moscow has always refuted U.S. claims that Russia manipulated the 2024 presidential election and other elections and disseminated false material in an effort to cause turmoil.
WAR?
With Moscow’s forces moving at their quickest rate since the conflict’s early weeks and the West wondering how the war will conclude, the two-and-a-half-year-old conflict in Ukraine is about to reach what some Russian and Western officials think could be its last and most dangerous phase.
Putin outlined his requirements for ending the war on June 14: Ukraine would have to give up its hopes of joining NATO and remove all of its forces from all of the territory in four areas that Russia claims.
Russia controls over 70% of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson areas, around 80% of the Donbas, a coal and steel zone that includes the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Speaking for many hours on Thursday, Putin attacked Western leaders for their adventurism, accusing them of bringing the world to the brink by attempting to give Russia a strategic loss in Ukraine.
Putting pressure on us is pointless. Shortly after reprimanding the West for promising Ukraine and Georgia potential NATO membership in 2008, Putin stated, “But we are always ready to negotiate with full consideration of mutual legitimate interests.”
He claimed that since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, the West has never recognized Russia as an equal partner, viewing it as a vanquished nation and expanding the NATO military alliance, which is led by the United States, eastward toward Russia.
Putin claimed that although Washington had the upper hand, Russia was prepared to mend fences with the US. Putin added that China was an ally of Russia.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov laughed when asked about Kamala Harris’s warning that Putin would eat Trump for lunch, responding, “Putin does not eat people.”
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