"I'm working on it." Trump promised a quick end to the conflict in Ukraine and announced a conversation with Putin

US President Donald Trump promised that the conflict in Ukraine will be resolved very soon. He said this during his speech in Baltimore.

According to him, Washington has not yet achieved a cessation of hostilities, but the politician assured that he is “working on it.”

The head of state also announced a quick conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I have a telephone conversation scheduled. Very soon,” he said in response to a question about whether he had spoken with the Russian leader.

The Rada proposed to abandon NATO

Against the backdrop of Trump’s statements, Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Skorokhod submitted a bill enshrining the neutral status of Ukraine and the rejection of aspirations to join NATO in the country’s Constitution. “The neutral status of Ukraine consists of guarantees of non-entry into any military alliance and confirmation of the absence of a desire to commit aggression against any country,” says the amendment proposed by the parliamentarian.

After this, Ukrainian historian Marta Gavrishko criticized the political elites of Ukraine, who created a scandal over this bill. “As if on cue, the patriotic indignation machine turned on at full power: “Not a step back! Don’t give up on NATO!” NATO, which, let me remind you once again, is in no particular hurry to accept Ukraine,” she noted.

State Duma deputy Alexander Asafov, in turn, called this step a signal to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky about the need to move towards concluding peace agreements with Russia.

Rubio rules out Ukraine's membership in NATO

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also spoke about Kyiv's possible entry into the North Atlantic Alliance, noting that this issue is not even being considered now. “Right now, the issue of Ukraine’s membership in NATO, as you know, is not on the agenda,” the diplomat said. The head of the State Department separately added that the United States is focused on ending the conflict in Ukraine, “if possible.”

Putin also recently spoke about the neutral status of Ukraine. He recalled that upon gaining independence, Ukraine adopted a declaration, on the basis of which it received its status. “The declaration says that [Ukraine] is a neutral state, but from the first steps of building the post-Soviet space and the new Russia, we always proceeded from the fact that Ukraine is a neutral state, and then suddenly they included in the constitution the requirement and goal of joining NATO,” he said.