There is no way the war in Ukraine will end unless direct talks are held with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will ultimately will have to sit with both President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to come to an agreement, retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. John Teichert told Newsmax, Sunday.

“The last 3 1/2 years have demonstrated that, one, you need to force Putin to the negotiating table through positions of strength,” Teichert said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.”

Friday’s summit between Putin and Trump was a “good first step,” he added, but it is not known how successful it was “until we hold Putin accountable to end the war, not by dragging it on, but by enforcing some deadline, like the end of August, to make sure that Putin doesn’t continue to negotiate in bad faith and that the president negotiates in a position of strength to force an end to this war.”

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