{"id":528648,"date":"2025-10-26T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528648\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:30:14","slug":"trump-ties-putin-meeting-to-assurances-of-ukraine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528648\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ties Putin meeting to assurances of Ukraine deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would only reschedule a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin if he has assurances that a deal could be reached to end the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna have to know that we&#8217;re gonna make a deal. I&#8217;m not gonna be wasting my time,&#8221; Trump told reporters while traveling to Malaysia for the 47th ASEAN summit.<\/p>\n<p>Trump expressed disappointment with the peace process, saying: &#8220;I&#8217;ve always had a great relationship with Vladimir Putin, but this has been very disappointing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the war proved more difficult than expected due to &#8220;tremendous hatred&#8221; between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Putin.<\/p>\n<p>A White House official said earlier this week that plans for a second Trump-Putin summit were put on hold following a call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced Oct.16 he would meet Putin in Hungary within two weeks, but canceled Wednesday because &#8220;it didn&#8217;t feel right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Good chance&#8217; of &#8216;comprehensive deal&#8217; with China<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he expects from his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, Trump said a &#8220;complete deal&#8221; with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders will meet in South Korea on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want our farmers to be taken care of. And he wants things also,&#8221; Trump said, adding discussions will cover fentanyl trafficking from China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he may discuss Russian oil purchases with Xi, noting China is &#8220;cutting back very substantially&#8221; while India is &#8220;cutting back completely,&#8221; following US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have a really good chance of making a very comprehensive deal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would only reschedule a meeting with Russian President Vladimir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[5340,1395,32,2000,299,657,978,333,2601,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-528648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-vladimir-putin","16":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","17":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115439299707310243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}