Trump says he isn’t surprised Putin skipped high-stakes Ukraine peace talks — and he knows the reason why

Trump says he isn’t surprised Putin skipped high-stakes Ukraine peace talks — and he knows the reason why


President Trump said Thursday he wasn’t at all surprised Russian President Vladimir Putin was snubbing peace-talks with Ukraine this week — saying “Why would he go if I’m not going?”

Trump, who had pushed for Putin to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey later on Thursday, brushed off the Russian leader’s decision to skip the high-stake talks.

“I wasn’t planning to go. I would go. But I wasn’t planning to go. And I said I don’t think he’s going to go if I don’t go, and that turned out to be right,” Trump told reporters in Qatar following a business roundtable.

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