Trump says Russia, Ukraine peace talks to begin 'immediately' after Putin call
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Tuesday, May 20th, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:15.3 | Today, President Donald Trump is optimistic about Russia-Ukraine peace talks after a call with Russia's |
| 0:20.5 | President Vladimir Putin, plus how former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis is linked Trump is optimistic about Russia-Ukraine peace talks after a call with Russia's President |
| 0:20.9 | Vladimir Putin, plus how former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis is landing in Washington |
| 0:25.9 | this week. |
| 0:26.9 | In the Supreme Court, lets Trump strip hundreds of thousands of migrants of protected status |
| 0:31.2 | for now. |
| 0:33.4 | President Donald Trump said after a two-hour call with Russian President Vladimir |
| 0:37.1 | Putin that peace talks would begin immediately following their discussion. Trump said after a two-hour call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that peace talks would begin immediately following their discussion. |
| 0:41.4 | Trump said on social media that he believed the call went very well, and he said that both Russia and Ukraine would start negotiations toward a ceasefire. |
| 0:49.2 | Trump added that Pope Leo the 14th offered to host the talks at the Vatican. |
| 0:53.1 | Putin said that Trump noted Russia's support |
| 0:54.9 | for peace, though the key question was how to move toward that. Trump has pressured both sides |
| 0:59.5 | to accept a ceasefire and peace deal to end a war that began in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 1:05.8 | Solonsky backs a 30-day ceasefire, but Putin has said he first wants talks to review details of a possible |
| 1:11.8 | truce. The two countries already held negotiations last week in Turkey, marking the first time |
| 1:16.9 | the two sides engaged in talks since the early weeks of the war. They agreed to a prisoner swap |
| 1:22.0 | and continued discussions, though Putin sent a second-tier team of negotiators to the peace talks, |
| 1:27.1 | rejecting Zelensky's |
| 1:28.2 | challenge to meet in person. Despite tensions with Zelensky weeks ago, Trump more recently |
| 1:32.9 | has shown increasing impatience with Putin and threatened additional sanctions on Russia. |
| 1:38.0 | Meanwhile, both Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have met directly with Zelensky |
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