(COMBO) This mix of images created on February 25, 2025 reveals US President Donald Trump (L) on February 22, 2025, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 12, 2025.. Ukraine has agreed on the phrases of a minerals cope with the US and will signal it February 28, 2025, the 2 nations mentioned, a transfer Kyiv hopes will result in future safety ensures from Washington.
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U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned Sunday the onus to finish the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv is on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In a submit on Fact Social, Trump mentioned that Zelenskyy might “finish the conflict with Russia virtually instantly, if he desires to, or he can proceed to combat.”
“Keep in mind the way it began. No getting again Obama given Crimea (12 years in the past, with no shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE,” Trump added within the submit, mirroring calls for by the Kremlin for recognition of its annexation of Crimea and for Ukraine to be excluded from the NATO alliance.
Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014 and backed separatists in japanese Ukraine, a transfer that was broadly condemned by the worldwide group. Moscow then launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Trump’s feedback come forward of an Aug. 18 assembly in Washington with Zelenskyy and a lot of European leaders.
The gathering follows Trump’s Aug. 15 talks along with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska, which lasted three hours however didn’t yield a ceasefire settlement, although the U.S. President described the talks as “productive.”
Trump reportedly informed Zelenskyy after the assembly with Putin that Moscow had provided to freeze a lot of the entrance strains in Ukraine in trade for Kyiv withdrawing from the japanese areas of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Zelenskyy had rejected the proposal forward of the summit, saying this is able to deprive Ukraine of key defensive positions and permit Moscow to launch additional offensives into Ukraine. Kyiv at the moment holds about one quarter of Donetsk, together with its so-called “fortress belt” of cities.
In a Fox Information interview after the assembly with Putin, Trump urged Zelenskyy to strike a deal to finish the conflict in Ukraine. “Look, Russia is a really large energy, and [Ukraine is] not. They’re nice troopers,” he mentioned.
In 2024, then-U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mentioned to the United Nations: “If Russia stops preventing, the conflict ends. If Ukraine stops preventing, Ukraine ends.”
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