The Trump government increases the pressure on Ukraine to conclude a peace agreement that ends the conflict with Russia as president Donald Trump According to the White House, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy is increasingly irritated.
National security adviser Mike Waltz admitted on Thursday that Trump’s patience with Zenskyy is becoming thin and said that on Wednesday discussions between the special envoy of the US for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg and Ukrainian officials are aimed at helping KYIV “understand” the war come to a halt.
“President Trump is clearly very frustrated with President Zenskyy at the moment, the fact that he did not come to the table, that he is not willing to make this opportunity we offered,” Waltz said in a white house on Thursday in a white house House Press briefing. “I think he will eventually come to that point, and I hope so quickly.”
“It is certainly not in the interest of Russia or in the interest of the American people for this war to grind forever, always,” said Waltz. “So an important part of his conversation was to help President Zenskyy understand that this war should end.”
Vice -president JD Vance On Thursday, the decision of the Trump government defended Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, despite the frustration of Ukraine that it was absent in those meetings. Vance emphasized that communicating with Russia is the key to promoting a deal, and said he believes that Europe is in the “pre -stroke of peace” for the first time in three years.
“How are you going to end the war unless you talk to Russia?” Vance said at the conservative political action conference near the capital of the nation. “You have to talk to everyone who is involved in the fighting. If you really want to end the conflict.”
In the meantime, American officials have also met Ukrainian officials about a peace agreement, and Kellogg said in a position on X on Wednesday that the US is committed to ending the war and finding ways to establish ‘sustainable peace’.
The increased pressure on Ukraine to agree with a deal is on the heels of different tense days between Trump and Zenskyy, like each insults hurled back and forth Towards each other after the meetings between us and Russian officials.
While Zenskyy Trump accused of perpetuating Russian “disinformation” on Wednesday, Trump took back a shot and labeled Zenskyy a “dictator” who failed and suggested that Ukraine initiated the war. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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The American State Secretary Marco Rubio, second from the left, and other American officials meet Russian counterparts in Riyad, Saudi -Arabia, to promote conversations about ending the Ukraine war. (The Associated Press)
State Secretary Marco Rubio, special envoy for the East Steve Witkoff and Waltz met in Riyad, Saudi -Aarabia, on Tuesday with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir’s Foreign Business Advisor, Yuri Ushakov, to have a hazeing to be to be talking to for to Hashen for . .
Zenskyy said that Ukraine did not receive an invitation to the meeting and reporters told on Tuesday in Turkey that “no one decides behind our back”, after emphasizing that Kyiv does not agree with a peace negotiation without the input of Ukraine.
Vice President JD Vance said that the meeting with Russia was necessary to take the next steps to conclude a peace agreement. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
In the meantime, the US has indicated the interest in making way for some of Russia’s requirements for a peace agreement in recent days, and Trump told the BBC on Wednesday that he believes Russia is the one who has the cards a bit because they are taken a lot of territory. ”
From January, Russia has taken control of about 18% of Ukraine’s territory, according to the Washington, DC-based think tank The Brookings Institution. Trump’s Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth Said on 12 February that it was not realistic for Ukraine to regain his pre -war limits with Russia, which gave rise to criticism that Ukraine is forced to give concessions.
“Putin will take this in the pocket and about more questions,” said Brett Bruen, director of global engagement among former President Barack Obama, on February 13 to Fox News Digital.
Moreover, the US has suggested that it has an election in Ukraine – an important condition for Russia to agree to a peace agreement.
Almost a year after the five -year term of Zenskyy was planned to end, he remained in his position that Kiev led because the Ukrainian constitutional bars hold elections under the state of siege. Since February 2022, Ukraine has been under the state of siege.
However, Russia was not the only one who was busy forcing Ukraine to keep an election, Trump said on Tuesday on his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
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The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy said that Ukraine does not agree with a peace agreement unless it participates in negotiations. (Pier Marco Water/Getty images)
As a result, Zenskyy’s hands can be bound and he may have no other option than to give to the concessions, according to Trump’s former deputy national security adviser KT McFarland.
“If President Zenskyy will walk away and somehow says:” I’m against a deal with Russia, I am against every deal with America. ” Real?” McFarland said on Thursday in an interview with ‘Mornings with Maria’ by Fox Business Network.
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“Well, how is he planning to keep this country safe in the next 20, 30, 40 years?” Said McFarland.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and Trump promised on the campaign track in 2024 that he would work to end the conflict if he was chosen again.
Morgan Phillips from Fox News has contributed to this report.
