Posted on 10/17/2025 11:04:12 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’ll meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Hungary to try to resolve the war in Ukraine, but a date has yet to be determined.
"I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation," Trump wrote on Truth Social after his early afternoon phone call with Putin.
"[W]e agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined. President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this 'inglorious' War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end."
Trump 's call with Putin comes ahead of Trump’s meeting on Friday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been pressing Trump to sell Kyiv Tomahawk missiles that would allow Ukrainian forces to strike deeper into Russian territory.
Zelenskyy has argued such strikes would help compel Putin to take Trump’s calls for direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to end the war more seriously.
Trump had told reporters traveling with him to Israel on Sunday that he had planned to discuss the Tomahawks with Putin as a way to pressure him to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
“Do they want to have Tomahawks going in that direction? I don’t think so,” Trump said on Sunday. “I think I might speak to Russia about that.”
With the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal holding, Trump has said he's now turning his attention to bringing the war in Ukraine to an end and is weighing providing Kyiv long-range weaponry as he looks to prod Moscow to the negotiating table.
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strong chance that Z and the EuroWeenies will sabotage with negative public statements. Z will have to give up land.I wish trump the best of luck.
When “Z” arrived at the Whitehouse, he said...”nice jacket”. Dumb a** “Z” took it at a compliment. lol
Will probably send the fake Putin again.
Putin will be serving gourmet borscht which 47 will lap up.
“Putin will be serving gourmet borscht which 47 will lap up.”
Here’s another one. You loved him when he first talked about Tomahawks but now you hate him again. I called it. Uke Nationalists hating President Trump again. You’re just mad we’re not gonna fight Russia for you.
You loved him when he first talked about Tomahawks
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No I did not - I love no politician period.
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