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President Donald Trump kicked off the week with a significant breakthrough brokering a ceasefire settlement between Israel and Hamas, and closed out the week looking for to make progress on the following international battle: Ukraine.
Trump met with Israeli lawmakers within the Knesset on Monday, earlier than heading to Egypt the place he met with leaders there in addition to Qatar, Turkey and different regional powers. The president urged international locations within the area to “put the previous feuds and bitter hatreds behind us.”
“In the end, we now have peace within the Center East, and it is a quite simple expression, peace within the Center East,” Trump informed reporters in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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President Donald Trump delivers a speech on the Gaza Worldwide Peace Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, Oct.13 2025. (Yoan Valat, Pool photograph through AP)
“We have heard it for a few years, however no person thought it may ever get there. And now we’re there,” Trump stated.
The peace deal within the Center East features a provision to return the hostages that had been nonetheless in captivity inside 72 hours of Hamas signing off on the deal. It additionally referred to as for Israeli forces to withdraw its troops and an entire disarmament of Hamas.
Now, Trump has stated that he’ll set his sights on resolving the battle between Russia and Ukraine. Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday on the White Home.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks throughout the plenary session of the twenty eighth Saint Petersburg Worldwide Financial Discussion board SPIEF 2025 on June 20, 2025 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Contributor/Getty Pictures)
Whereas Trump stated that there’s momentum to resolve the battle on the heels of the peace deal within the Center East, there’s “great dangerous blood” between Putin and Zelenskyy that’s stalling a decision.
“They’ve great dangerous blood,” Trump informed reporters. “It is actually is what’s holding up I feel a settlement. I feel we’re going to get it performed, and we now have to make it long-lasting, as I stated within the Center East, eternal.”
“The Center East is a way more difficult scenario. You recognize, we had 59 international locations concerned, and each certainly one of them agreed. And it is, , it is type of superb. Most individuals did not suppose that was doable. That is going to be one thing I actually consider that is going to get performed. I had an excellent discuss yesterday with President Putin. I feel he needs to get it performed,” Trump stated.
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President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the White Home Aug. 18, 2025. (Getty Pictures)
In the meantime, Zelenskyy stated that Trump has a giant alternative to make headway on mediating an finish to the battle.
“President Trump has actually confirmed for the world that he can handle a ceasefire within the Center East. And that is why I hope that he’ll do that. And we may even have such large success. For Ukraine, it is a large likelihood, and I hope that President Trump can handle it,” Zelenskyy stated Friday.
