Putin-Trump dialogue \u2018promising\u2019 \u2013 Kremlin<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\nTrump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone on February 12, paving the way for a meeting of teams led by Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Riyadh last Tuesday. The parties discussed Ukraine and agreed to begin gradual normalization of bilateral ties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ukrainian and EU leaders have since said that they felt sidelined by the White House and alarmed by Trump\u2019s public criticism of Zelensky, whom he labeled \u201ca dictator.\u201d<\/em> Unlike his predecessor, who squarely blamed the conflict on Russia, Trump has insisted that Zelensky was responsible for the hostilities.\u00a0<\/p>\nUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington this week, hoping to ensure that Trump will not abandon aid to Ukraine. \u201cWe welcome their ideas for security guarantees and European leadership to take care of Europe\u2019s security,\u201d<\/em> Waltz said.\u00a0<\/p>\nSpeaking to reporters after talks in Riyadh, Lavrov said he saw signs that \u201cthe American side has begun to understand our position better.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s priority is to end conflicts, his national security adviser has said The US is carrying out a complete overhaul of its approach to the Ukraine conflict and relations with Russia, White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has said. Trump, who took office last month, has reversed the Biden administration\u2019s attempts to \u201cisolate\u201d Russia…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}