As he plans to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other European leaders in Washington, U.S President Donald Trump has implored Ukraine to renounce any plans to join NATO and to forget about reclaiming Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. It is planned to hold that meeting on Monday to try to bully Kyiv into concluding a peace settlement with Moscow despite the war still ravaging Ukraine.
In his comments, Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to move forward with talks that could bring to an end what arguably has been the bloodiest conflict in Europe in the last eight decades. In his remarks, Trump said the talks should be embraced and that this was always better than war. Tens of thousands of people and millions of people have been killed and displaced by the war triggered by the full-scale invasion by Russia in February 2022. Whereas Trump’s assistants suggested that both sides have to make several compromises, the former president seemed to place the entire responsibility on Zelenskiy. In a post on the Truth Social platform, Trump said, “Zelenskiy could STOP THE WAR with Russia practically overnight, in the event he wanted to do it… Crimea, never to be got back by Obama, and Ukraine never to join NATO.”
Leaders of European countries, such as Britain, Germany, France, and Italy, as well as Finland, the EU, and NATO, are flying to Washington to support Ukraine and ensure strong security assurances in any resolution. Zelenskiy, however, has dismissed the general terms of Putin’s propositions, which include surrendering the remainder of Donetsk to which Ukraine maintains control of a quarter. Rather, he is asking for an immediate ceasefire as a pretext to further negotiations.
Ukrainian president, who arrived in Washington silently on Sunday, thanked Trump for his invitation but noted that Russia had to be punished. Zelenskiy spoke of Russia needing to bring an end to this war, the war that it initiated, and his hope that the unity of the U.S. and European powers would enable them to coax Moscow into the real peace.
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