Trump puts onus on Zelenskyy to end war, cites Crimea and NATO
(Combo) This painting combination, which was created on February 25, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) on 22 February 2025 and Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine on February 12, 2025. Ukraine agreed on the agreement of a minerals with the United States and said that the two countries will be on the way to Wastta.
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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end the war between Moscow and Kiev.
In an article on real Social, Trump said that Zelenskyy could “end the war with Russia if he wants to end or continue to fight.”
“Remember how it started. Obama did not go back to Crimea (12 years ago, without firing!) And don’t go to NATO by Ukraine,
In 2014, Russia seized the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula and supported separatists in the east of Ukraine, a movement that is widely condemned by the international community. Moscow later launched a full -scale Ukraine invasion in February 2022.
Trump’s comments are in front of Zelenskyy in Washington and a series of European leaders in front of the 18 August meeting.
The meeting followed Trump’s August 15 talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, which lasted three hours but did not make a cease -fire agreement, but both sides described the talks as “productive”.
Trump reported to Zelenskyy After the meeting with Putin, he offered to freeze most of the front lines in Ukraine in exchange for Kiev, which was withdrawn from the eastern regions of Moscow and Luhansk.
Zelenskyy rejected the offer before the summit, He said it would deprive Ukraine of key defense positions and allow Moscow to start more attacks on Ukraine. KYIV currently has about one quarter of Donetsk, including it. It was called the “castle belt” of cities.
After a meeting with Putin, in a Fox News interview, Trump called on Zelenskyy to make an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. “Look, Russia is a great power and [Ukraine is] Negative. They’re big soldiers, “he said.
In 2024, then-US. Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken The United Nations said: “If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine will end.”
