US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects to sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” in Saudi Arabia for the first of what he said could be a series of meetings geared toward ending the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.
Trump continued to describe the war as a “disaster” that is “really bloody horrible,” saying he believes that with his assistance, “we’ll get something done” to end the nearly three-year long conflict.
“I’ll be dealing with President Putin, largely on the phone, and we ultimately expect to meet. In fact, we expect that he’ll come here, and I’ll go there, and we’re going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “The first time, we’ll meet in Saudi Arabia, see if we get something done. But we want to end that war.”