[Trending News] Trump announced that he would meet with Putin in Saudi Arabia – DW – 12.02.2025

Saudi Arabia will become a country where US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will hold a personal meeting to discuss the possibilities of ending the war of Russia against Ukraine. This follows from the statement that Trump made, speaking to journalists in the White House on Wednesday, February 12, a few hours after a telephone conversation with the President of the Russian Federation.

“We will meet in Saudi Arabia,” the AFP agency quotes the head of the American state. During his election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly emphasized that he intends to achieve the end of the war in Ukraine.

Communicating with journalists, Trump also said that he did not consider Ukraine’s entry into NATO appropriate, and Kiev received all the territories occupied by Russia, according to his assessment, is “unlikely”.

Trump's telephone conversation with Putin

As notes the CNN channela telephone conversation between Trump and Putin, about which the press service of the White House and the Kremlin was reported on February 12, is the first confirmed phone call from the beginning of the second term of Trump as president of the United States.

According to Trump, the presidents “agreed that they want to stop millions of deaths in the war between Russia and Ukraine.” Therefore, he said, politicians agreed that their teams “will begin negotiations immediately.” The President of the United States promised to call the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to inform him of the conversation, right now.

“I asked the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Ambassador and Special Messenger of Steve Whitkoff to head negotiations, which, as I am sure, will be successful,” he added.

According to CNN, Trump talked with Zelensky on February 12 around noon, shortly after the completion of his telephone conversation with Putin.

Meanwhile, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that during the conversation the Russian leader invited Donald Trump to visit Moscow. According to the Kremlin, the conversation between Putin and Trump lasted about 90 minutes.