Donald TrumpFormer National Security Advisor, John Boltonsays Russian President Vladimir Putin gets exactly what he wants from the president.

Trump increased three years of US policy towards Ukraine on Wednesday and said that he and Putin had agreed to start negotiations to end the war after a sudden prisoner.

Trump said he spent more than an hour on the phone with Putin and “I think we’re about to get peace.” He noted that he later spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but he was non -Committee if Ukraine would be an equal participant in US negotiations with Russia.

And Bolton says Putin has Trump “exactly” where he wants him.

“Putin has got a whole series of victories today. It is difficult to encompass them all, but I think that one, except material concessions, is that he has now – it seems – exactly what he wants. Putin does not want to negotiate with Zelenski, he wants to negotiate with Trump because he thinks he will get more out of it, “Bolton said on CNN.

Of his conversation with Putin, Trump said: “People didn’t really know what President Putin’s thoughts were. But I think I can say with great confidence, he wants to see that it also ended, so it’s good – and we will work to get it over and as quickly as possible. “

Trump who spoke to Putin sent a potentially dramatic signal that Washington and Moscow could work to hammer out a deal to end the fighting in Ukraine by walking around the country’s government. To do so would break the Biden administration, which steadily insisted that Kiev would be a complete participant in all decisions made.

On the question specifically, Ukraine was an equal member of the peace process, Trump answered: “Interesting question. I think they have to make peace. “

In another stroke against Ukraine’s Western ambitions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the NATO head office in Brussels said NATO membership was unrealistic for Ukraine.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Joe Biden The administration joined other NATO members to promise that membership in the western military alliance was “inevitable.”

Trump said Wednesday about Russia: “I think they long before President Putin said there is no way they would allow it.”

Associated Press contributed to this report.