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PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS NEGOTIATIONS WILL START IMMEDIATELY.. TO END THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR. IT COMES AFTER THE U-S WELCOMED HOME AN AMERICAN LAST NIGHT AS PART OF A PRISONER SWAP WITH RUSSIA. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT MADDIE BIERTEMPFEL (BEER-temple) IS IN D-C WITH MORE ON THE EXCHANGE. IN EXCHANGE FOR GETTING MARC FOGEL HOME.. WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS SAY THE U-S IS RELEASING A RUSSIAN CRIMINAL-- ALEXANDER VINNIK. HE WAS ARRESTED FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY FRAUD AND CONVICTED OF MONEY LAUNDERING. AS MARC FOGEL STEPPED BACK ON AMERICAN SOIL.. "I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now." THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS HIS RELEASE IS A STEP FORWARD IN ENDING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR. "it's a sign we are moving in the right direction" PRESIDENT TRUMP GREETED THE AMERICAN TEACHER AT THE WHITE HOUSE LATE TUESDAY AFTER FOGEL SPENT ABOUT THREE YEARS JAILED IN RUSSIA FOR HAVING MEDICAL MARIJUANA. "It could be a big important part of getting the war over with Ukraine." THE PRISONER SWAP COMES AMID NEW TALKS TO END THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE HAD A PHONE CALL WITH RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TODAY.. "I think President Putin wants peace President Zelenskyy wants peace and I want peace" THE PRESIDENT ALSO SPOKE TO UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY.. WHO POSTED ON X THAT THE TWO TALKED ABOUT QUOTE "opportunities to achieve peace." "Returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective." WHILE MEETING WITH NATO LEADERS.. DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH SHOT DOWN SOME OF UKRAINE'S JOINING NATO. "The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome" SOME ALLIES DISAGREED WITH THAT. "Ukraine's rightful place is in NATO. That is a process that will take some time." VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE AND SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO ARE SET TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY FRIDAY IN GERMANY. IN WASHINGTON I'M MADDIE BIERTEMPFEL. {OPTIONAL ANCHOR TAG: PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE WILL MEET IN-PERSON WITH RUSSIA'S PRESIDENT PUTIN. HE SAID THE FIRST MEETING WILL LIKELY BE IN SAUDIA ARABIA, BUT DIDN'T SAY *WHEN THAT MIGHT BE.}