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President Trump has spoken to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the phone to try to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, he told The Post in an exclusive interview aboard Air Force One Friday.
“I’d better not say,” said Trump when asked how many times the two leaders have spoken.
But he believes Putin “does care” about the killing on the battlefield.
“He wants to see people stop dying,” said Trump.
“All those dead people. Young, young, beautiful people. They’re like your kids, two million of them – and for no reason.”
The three-year-old war “never would have happened” if he had been president in 2022, Trump asserted.
“I always had a good relationship with Putin,” he said, unlike his predecessor.
“Biden was an embarrassment to our nation. A complete embarrassment.”
Trump said he has a concrete plan to end the war.
“I hope it’s fast. Every day people are dying. This war is so bad in Ukraine. I want to end this damn thing.”
Addressing National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who joined him in his study aboard Air Force One Friday night, the president said: “Let’s get these meetings going. They want to meet. Every day people are dying. Young handsome soldiers are being killed. Young men, like my sons. On both sides. All over the battlefield.”
Vice President Vance will meet Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference next week.
Trump has said he wants to strike a $500 million deal with Zelensky to access rare-earth minerals and gas in Ukraine in exchange for security guarantees in any potential peace settlement.
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On Iran, Trump told The Post: “I would like a deal done with Iran on non-nuclear. I would prefer that to bombing the hell out of it. . . . They don’t want to die. Nobody wants to die.”
“If we made the deal, Israel wouldn’t bomb them.”
But he would not reveal details of any potential negotiations with Iran: “In a way, I don’t like telling you what I’m going to tell them. You know, it’s not nice.”
“I could tell what I have to tell them, and I hope they decide that they’re not going to do what they’re currently thinking of doing. And I think they’ll really be happy.”
“I’d tell them I’d make a deal.”
As for what he would offer Iran in return, he said, “I can’t say that because it’s too nasty. I won’t bomb them.”
A Brooklyn mother has been charged in the suspicious death of her 6-year-old girl after the child was found dead in a bathtub on Friday, authorities said.
According to police sources, officers from the 75th Precinct were called to a home in the vicinity of Elton Street near Ridgewood Avenue in Cypress Hills at around 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 7 after receiving a 911 call.
Sources familiar with the case said the child’s father found the youngster unresponsive in the tub after checking in on her.
First responders rushed the child to Brookdale University Medical Center, but it was too late; she was pronounced dead.
NYPD sources familiar with the investigation report that the girl had been inside the tub about 20 minutes before police arrived and was found with blood clots in the eyes — an indication that some kind of physical struggle occurred.
Police say the mother, 26-year-old Karla Espinal, was taken to the station house for questioning. Late Saturday night, she was officially charged with felony assault, child endangerment and reckless endangerment.
Additional charges against Espinal are pending the results of the autopsy, which the Medical Examiner’s office is conducting to determine exactly how the child died.
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