As Trump begins in the fourth week of the Oval Office, everyone is paying attention to Russia – Ukraine
President Donald Trump and his administration will have another busy week in negotiations to end the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Trump will send a handful of U.S. officials to Saudi Arabia this week to begin negotiations on a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Trump’s special envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff told Fox News Sunday morning that he and national security adviser Mike Waltz will travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday night, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will also go to Saudi Arabia for the International Munich Security Conference last week in his later period and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday.
The meeting in Saudi Arabia was announced by Trump last Wednesday after Trump announced Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to start peace talks “immediately”.
“There is a meeting in Saudi Arabia next week,” Trump told the media at a press conference on Thursday. “It’s not that I am not with President Putin myself, but with senior officials. Ukraine is also Will be part of it. We will see if we can end this war. It’s a terrible war. It’s a vicious, bloody war we want to end it.”
Russia and Ukraine have been in war since Russia first invaded its neighbors in February 2022. Trump once said in his 2024 campaign that if he was re-elected, he would end the war, while claiming that he would never have started if he was in the Oval Office at the time.
Rubio said Trump will determine whether Putin “takes negotiations seriously” to end the Ukrainian war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump (Contributor | Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Witkov told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that Trump accused his team of U.S. officials of holding a peace meeting in his direction in Saudi Arabia.
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“I’m going tonight. I’m going to travel with the National Security Advisor and we’re going to meet under the guidance of the president. Hopefully we’ve made very good progress in Russia, Ukraine,” Vikov said.
Waltz, Ratcliff, Rubio and Witkov (Getty Image)
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Fans cheered as Air Force One flew over the Daytona International Speedway during Trump’s U.S. weekend in Mar-A-Lago, Florida, and headed to the Daytona 500. Trump was the first chairman to compete in two Daytona 500 races at the Daytona International Speedway, and had previously competed in the 2020 race.
Donald Trump shakes hands with NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Richard Petty on the Daytona 500 on February 16, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Trump’s schedule this week may also include meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who requests a visit with the White House president.
Trump told the media on Friday that he did talk to the British Prime Minister and accepted a request to meet at the White House.
“We will have a friendly meeting, which is very good. We have a lot of good things happening. But he asked to come and see me, I just accepted his question” Trump said.
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Trump said the meeting will be held “soon”, which suggests it will be held next week or next week. No details about what will be focused on for the upcoming meeting have been revealed, although Trump’s announcement of a “reciprocal tariff” program on Thursday, which would impose “fair and reciprocal” tariffs on all major U.S. trading partners .
“In trade, I decided that for fair purposes, I will Reciprocal tariffswhich means that no matter the country charges the United States, we will no longer charge them. In other words, they charge us taxes or tariffs, and we charge them the exact same taxes or tariffs, which are very simple. ” White House Tariff plan.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (AP)
In terms of energy policy, Trump formed the National Energy Steering Committee on Friday, which is expected to “release” energy independence.
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“We have more energy than any other country, and now we are releasing it,” Trump said on Friday in the Oval Office’s signing an executive order to establish the Energy Commission. “I call it underfoot liquid gold, we will use it.”
Kevin Hassett, director of the second Trump administration’s National Economic Commission, predicts that even this week, the Council will quickly work to make U.S. energy dominate.
Hassett told Trump at the Oval Office on Friday.
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Trump has signed 65 execution orders in the fourth week of his office, including 26 on his first day of office alone.
