Putin Talks: Prisoner Exchange and Europe's Role in Ending the War

Uh, uh, Joe Petraeus and, and, uh, Vladimir Putin.

We had a very, very, uh, good discussions on a lot of fronts.

We were able to finalize on, uh, the prisoner of war exchange, which is, uh, a very important thing.

We obviously, the human-- A lot of people are being impacted by this war, and to return these thousands of people to their families, I think will be a very nice, uh, uh, milestone to achieve.

Uh, we've also been working very, very closely over the past, uh, several months with the Europeans, and I think that that's been very important.

Uh, we could not, uh, conclude this deal without the Europeans being, uh, at the table.

Uh, we've been, uh, telling President Putin that, uh, we believe that's very important, and, uh, President Trump has been a very strong, uh, supporter and has been saying that from the very, very beginning.

And, and I think that we're able to achieve that with President Putin, and it's going to give it a try.

I think that, you know, from the Russian perspective, from the European perspective, there's a lot of things that both sides are saying publicly, and, and I think that what we're hopefully seeing, uh, in the conversations when people get together is we can talk about things,

we can maybe have a little bit more calm conversations and go through these issues.

And, uh, I think what I would say, at least what we're hearing from people, is that people would like to see this war end.