Trump Tells Zelenskiy That Putin Wants More Of Ukraine, Urges Kyiv Make A Deal

Washington/Moscow/KYIV, 16 August (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said that Ukraine should make an agreement to finish on Saturday War with Russia Because after a summit reported that Vladimir Putin demanded more Ukrainian land, “Russia is not a great power and not”.

After the two leaders came together in Alaska on Friday, Trump told the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy If Kiev made all Donetsk, one of the main objectives of Moscow, a source familiar to the issue, he said that Putin had offered to freeze the front.

The source said Zelenskiy rejected the demand. Russia is already controlling fifth Ukraine, including about three quarters of Donetsk, which he first entered in 2014.

Trump also said that Putin and Ukraine and their European allies had to be a peace agreement without the previous ceasefire. This was a change from the position before the summit when he said he would not be happy unless the agreement was reached on a ceasefire.

“The best way to end the terrible war between Russia and Ukraine, not just a ceasefire agreement, but a ceasefire agreement that cannot bear, will end the direct war.

Zelenskiy said Russia’s reluctance to pause the war will complicate its efforts to make a lasting peace. “Stopping killing is an important element to stop the war,” he said.

However, Zelenskiy said he would meet Trump in Washington on Monday.

Will awaken your memories meeting Trump and Vice President JD Vance in February, when Zelenskiy brutally dressed in the White House Oval Office. Trump said he could follow a three -way meeting with Putin and Zelenskiy.

Kyiv’s European allies welcomed EmbersHis efforts have promised to support Ukraine and tighten the sanctions against Russia. There may be European leaders Join the White House meeting on Monday German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said.

In February 2022, Russia launched a full -scale Ukraine invasion and is slowly moving for months. According to analysts, the most deadly war in Europe for 80 years has killed or wounded more than one million people from both sides, including thousands of Ukrainian civilians.

Trump’s various comments in the three -hour meeting with Putin are mostly compatible Public Positions The positions that say that Moscow will be complex will be complex.

Putin did not point to any movement in Russia’s long -standing demands, which included a veto under the desired membership of Kiev’s NATO alliance. He did not mention meeting Zelenskiy. Kremlin Aide Yuri Ushakov said that a three -way summit was not discussed.

In an interview with Fox News Sean Hannity, Trump pointed out that they discussed land transfers and security guarantees for him and Putin for Ukraine and “largely accepted”.

“I think you are quite close to an agreement,” he said: “Ukraine has to accept it. Maybe they say ‘no’.”

He asked Zelenskiy what he would recommend to do, Trump said: im I have to make an agreement ”.

“Look, Russia is a huge power and not,” he added.

Zelenskiy said that he could not accept the region continuously without changing the Ukrainian Constitution, and Kyiv sees Donetsk’s “castle cities such as Sloviansk and Kramatorsk as an increase against further Russian progress.

Zelenskiy insisted on security guarantees to prevent Russia from being occupied again. He and Trump discussed the “positive signals ve in the United States, and that Ukraine needs a permanent peace, not a“ other pause önemli between the Russian invasions.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed what Trump announced in terms of providing security guarantees to Ukraine within the scope of the peace agreement. He said that the security guarantees were “necessary for any fair and permanent peace”.

Putin, which contains foreign land forces, said that he acknowledged that Trump and Ukraine should be “ensured”.

For PutinSitting with Trump represented a victory. It has been excluded by Western leaders since the beginning of the war, and only a week ago, Trump had been threatened with new sanctions.

Trump spoke to European leaders after returning to Washington. Several stressful The need to put pressure on Russia.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Trump said that the end of the war was closer to the end of the war, but if the war continued, he would impose more sanctions on Russia.

European leaders said in a statement that Ukraine should have “Demirlad” security guarantees and should not be limited to the right to search for armed forces or NATO membership as Russia is looking for.

Some European politicians and commentators were afraid of the summit.

“When Trump had nothing, Putin received the treatment of Trump and Red Carpet,” he says, former German Ambassador Washington Ischinger X.

Both Russia and Ukraine were angry on the front while carried out night air strikes, which was an incident per day.

Trump told Fox to postpone imposing Tariffs in China To buy Russian oil, it may only be necessary to “think de within two or three weeks.

After the summit, he ended his words by saying Putin: “We will talk to you very soon and we will probably see it again soon.”

“Next time, in Moscow, a smiling Putin answered English.

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