Trump says meeting with Putin being planned as fight over Arctic set to begin
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Trump calls Ukraine war ‘bloody mess’ as he refuses to rule out military action to gain control over Greenland. President-elect Donald Trump said that a meeting is being planned with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the incoming commander-in-chief pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine and a greater presence in the Arctic.
![[Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that he believes the war will end quicker under a Trump administration.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/03/11/RUSIA-UCRANIA-GUERRA_15142.jpg)
Trump told the press at Mar-a-Lago that Putin “wants to meet and we are setting it up.”. “He has said that even publicly and we have to get that war over with. That’s a bloody mess,” he added. The Kremlin responded that it was open to having talks but that no specific details had been decided. Trump has long said that he plans to negotiate an end to the conflict and shared deep skepticism of U.S. support for the Ukrainian war effort.
![[Greenland has become a renewed target for Trump. His son, Don Jr, visited the autonomous territory on Tuesday, although his meetings with enthusiastic MAGA locals have been questioned.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/07/19/SEI235275192.jpg)
Trump has nominated former national security adviser and retired lieutenant-general Keith Kellogg to be the special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. In April last year, Kellogg outlined his thoughts on how the conflict may come to an end in a research paper released by the Trump-supporting think tank the America First Policy Institute.
He suggested that Ukraine should only get additional aid from the Americans if it agreed to take part in talks with the Russians to end the war. But Kellogg also said that the U.S. should continue its funding of the Ukrainian war effort if the Russians refuse to come to the table.
After Trump’s victory in November, Zelensky said he thought the war would “end sooner” than it would have otherwise and that he had had a “constructive exchange” over the phone with him, without sharing if the president-elect had put forward any requirements on talks with Russia.
