Donald Trump made an unexpected gesture towards Vladimir Putin. He pulled out a photo

U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested he might invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to next year’s FIFA World Cup in the United States. “It depends on how events unfold,” Trump said Friday at the White House. The American president is trying to broker a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelensky. Sergei Lavrov said earlier on Friday that Russia has no plans for such a meeting at this time.

Trump on Friday displayed a photo of himself with Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office, taken a week earlier in Alaska. “It’s a great photo,” the US president said, presenting the photo to the assembled journalists.

He didn’t rule out the possibility of Putin attending the FIFA World Cup, which will be held in the United States, among other places, next year. However, he added, that would depend on what happens with the war in Ukraine. “He respects me and our country very much, but not others,” Trump said.

He emphasized that he was giving Putin “a few more weeks.” He said the direction of the war in Ukraine will become clear within two weeks. Trump announced that he would then make a “very important decision” regarding Russia. He added that it could be either sanctions or nothing.

When asked what he thought about the Russian attack on the American company Flex in Mukachevo, Ukraine, he replied that he “didn’t like it.” “I don’t like everything that’s happening in this war,” he added.

Sergey Lavrov: Putin has no plans to meet with Zelensky.
Earlier on Friday, Donald Trump, speaking to journalists about the prospects of a bilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, which the American president is trying to organize, said: “We’ll see if Putin and Zelensky will work together. They are very different, they don’t get along very well for obvious reasons.”

His statement came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Vladimir Putin was not planning a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky