Donald Trump said he was open to joining talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey on Thursday, a suggestion that was quickly welcomed by Kyiv as the “right idea” as international efforts intensified to end the war.
The US president will be visiting the Gulf this week on an official trip to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, and said he could make a detour to Turkey to take part in planned talks between the two warring parties.
“I don’t know where I’m going to be on Thursday, I’ve got so many meetings, but I was thinking about actually flying over there,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday. “There’s a possibility of it, I guess, if I think things can happen, but we’ve got to get it done.”