Donald Trump signals that Ukraine should hold elections as part of Russia peace deal

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Donald Trump has indicated that Ukraine should be elected as part of a peace deal with Russia, the United States is in his first public comment after a high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh.

In critical comments about the management of Ukrainian President Vloadimir Jelnsky WarThe US President said: “It’s been a long time since our elections” in Ukraine. “This is not a thing in Russia. It is coming from me and coming from many other countries, “he told reporters at his Mar-E-Lago Resort in Florida.

“You have leadership [in Ukraine] He added to the Ukrainian cities with the “destructive site”, now it has ever allowed war.

“These cities look like Gaza,” he said, “There are most cities.. Lying on their side. The buildings are broken.

The President did not mention Russia’s role in destroying Ukrainian cities and cities during his full-scale aggression-the largest armed conflict on European soil since World War II.

Zensky’s tenure expired last year but Kiev said that it could only make an election after the fight was stopped and after withdrawing military law.

David Arakhamia, head of the ruling party in Parliament, said this month that elections should not be held six months before the military law ended.

Selecting a few million Ukrainian displays, living abroad or living in Russia’s occupation will be a great challenge. Kiev also expressed concern over any election around the election, saying that Western peacekeepers or security forces will be required to ensure voters’ protection.

A survey Ukrainians operated by the non -profit International Republican Institute in September and October showed that 60 percent of respondents opposed the presidential vote during the war. About 12 percent said that during the conflict, they did not support the voting for the new parliament.

There is Fear Kiev and all over Europe that Trump wants to settle the war against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s condition. The United States seems to have already given a significant concession to Putin, excluding NATO and the desire to restore its control over Russian-occupied land.

Trump said that he was “more confident” about reaching the Peace Agreement after Ukraine The US talks to Russia Tuesday in Riyadh, which he thought was “very good”.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov led the representatives at a four -and -a -half -hour meeting in the Saudi capital.

Next, they agreed to end the Ukraine war after Putin’s invasion of February 2022, ending the Ukraine war and “forming the foundation for future cooperation” on the normalization of a relationship of relationships.

Zensky said he had not been notified before about the discussion, and said Ukraine would do Reject any disposal that It does not directly involve Kiev. “We don’t want peace behind the screen without our involvement,” he said. “Peace cannot be achieved without Ukraine”.

The US President also said that he was “very disappointed” that Riyadh was upset with the “Ukraine seat” was upset, punished Kiev not to end the war. “Okay, they had a seat for three years, long ago, it could have been easily settled,” said Trump.

He also said that he would support European In Ukraine after the war, Lavrov said on Tuesday that any European peacekeepers in the country would be “unacceptable”.

“If they want to do it, it’s great. Trump told reporters that if they wanted to do this, I am for it and “don’t object to it at all”.

He also added that he does not want to get out of Europe all US troops as part of a peace agreement. “No one is telling it to do it, so I don’t think we need to do it. I don’t want to do it. But this question never really came.”

During the attack by Trump Jensky, he claimed that his equivalent approval rating was at 4 percent.

An opinion survey In December, the Kive International Institute of Sociology showed that 82 percent of Ukrainians believed in Gensky.

“I like him personally,” Trump told about Jelnsky. “He’s fine. But I don’t think about ‘personally’. I care about doing the job ”” “”

Additional Report of James Polytie in Washington