Although the next proposed stage in the peace process of having Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet one on one is a risky proposition, it is necessary if the war is ever going to end, Lord Peter Mandelson, British ambassador to the United States, told Newsmax on Tuesday.
Mandelson said on “Wake Up America” that this is the first time since this war began that Putin and Zelenskyy have apparently agreed “to meet to discuss their differences and work out whether, for both of them, there is a pathway to a peace settlement.”
He added that President Donald Trump pushing this as the next step illustrates that “he’s clearly a politician who believes in high risk, high reward, and if this comes off, if we pull off the end to this terrible war, then much of the credit will go to President Trump.”
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