Trump’s frustration with Zelenskyy escalates as we press on Ukraine to reach a peace deal
According to the White House, the Trump administration is increasing pressure on a peaceful deal in Ukraine, ending the conflict with Russia, with President Donald Trump increasingly facing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stimulation.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz admitted on Thursday that Trump’s patience with Zelenskyy continued very thin, saying that U.S. U.S. envoy to Ukraine and Russian envoy Keith Kellogg on Wednesday Discussions between (Keith Kellogg) and Ukrainian officials are bound to be in trouble.
“President Trump is now very frustrated with President Zelensky, and the fact that he has not yet come to the table and he is unwilling to seize the opportunity we offer,” Waltz told reporters at the White House on Thursday. By briefing. “I think he will get there eventually, and I hope it’s very quickly.”
“Of course, this is not in Russia’s interest, nor in the interests of the American people for this war, and it is constantly grinding forever,” Walz said. “So the key part of his conversation is to help President Zelensky,” he said. Understand that this war needs to end.”
Despite Ukraine’s frustration, Vice President JD Vance also defended the Trump administration’s decision to meet with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. Vance stressed that communicating with Russia was key to facilitating a deal, saying he believed that Europe was at the “point of peace” for the first time in three years.
“How will you end the war unless you talk to Russia?” Vance said at a conservative political action conference near the U.S. capital. “You have to talk to everyone involved in the fight. If you actually want to end the conflict.”
Meanwhile, U.S. officials also met with Ukrainian officials on the peace agreement, and Kellogg said in an article on X on Wednesday that the United States is still committed to ending the war and finding ways to build a “sustainable peace.”
The pressure on Ukraine to agree to a deal has exacerbated the tense days between Trump and Zelensky because everyone insulted each other after the meeting between us and Russian officials.
Zelenskyy accused Trump of continuing Russia’s “false information” on Wednesday, but Trump brought back the poke and labeled Zelenskyy as a “dictator” who failed his country, and It is suggested that Ukraine launch a war. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second on the left, and other U.S. officials met with their Russian counterparts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to push for negotiations on ending the Ukrainian war. (Associated Press)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Middle East Steve Witkoff and Waltz went to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ) and Yuri Ushakov, diplomatic adviser to President Vladimir Putin, held with Russian Foreign Minister Vladimir Putin to end the conflict in a way that ends the conflict. way.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine did not receive an invitation to the meeting and told reporters in Turkey on Tuesday that “no one decided anything behind it”, amid stressing in recent days that Kiev would not agree to peace talks without Ukraine’s input.
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Vice President JD Vance said the meeting with Russia was a need to take the next step toward a peace agreement. (Alex Brandon/AP)
Meanwhile, the United States has shown interest in some of Russia’s demands for a peace deal in recent days, and Trump told the BBC on Wednesday that he believes Russia is “the guy with a little card because they have taken a lot of territory.” ”
As of January, Russia had controlled about 18 percent of Ukrainian territory, according to the Brookings Agency, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on February 12 that it was not realistic for Ukraine to regain its pre-war border with Russia, prompting criticism of Ukraine being forced to succumb to concessions.
“Putin will pay more,” Brett Bruen, director of global engagement under former President Barack Obama, told Fox News Digital Digital on February 13.
In addition, the United States recommends doing so in Ukraine’s support for elections, which is a key condition for Russia to agree to a peace agreement.
Almost a year after Zelenskyy’s five-year term ended, he has been in the position of leading Kiev as the Ukrainian Constitutional Lawyers held elections under martial law. Ukraine has been under martial law since February 2022.
But Trump said Tuesday at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida that Russia is not the only pressure to force Ukraine to hold elections.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine would not agree to the peace agreement unless it participates in the negotiations. (Marco Tacca/Getty Images)
As a result, according to former Trump national security adviser KT McFarland, Zelenskyy’s hands may be tied and he may have no choice.
“If President Zelenskyy was going to get rid of this and somehow said: ‘I object to any deal with Russia, I would object to any deal with the United States.” Really? McFarland said in an interview with Fox Business Network on Thursday in a morning with Maria.
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“Well, how does he plan to ensure the security of this country over the next 20, 30, 40 years?” McFarlane said.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and Trump vowed in 2024 on the campaign that he would work to end the conflict if re-elected.
Fox News’s Morgan Phillips contributed to the report.
