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USA, Russia holds peace negotiations without Ukraine
Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence CLIFF SIMS is joined by ‘American Reports’ to explain the state of the interview between the United States and Russia about the end of the war with Ukraine.
President Donald Trump And the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exchanged serious insults on Wednesday, after meetings between US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, without a representative of Ukraine.
Trump has repeatedly said that the only one who can end the war between Ukraine and Russia, and the print secretary of the Karolina Leavitt White House said Trump is in contact with Zelenskyy and works on that Ensure “to hear all parties” During peace negotiations.
However, it seems that the absence of Ukraine from the negotiations on Tuesday worsened the wedge between Washington and Kiev.
While Zelenskyy accused Trump of holding Russian “misinformation” on Wednesday, Trump reciprocated and marked the Zelesskky “dictator” that betrayed his country.
“The dictator without choice, Zelenskyy is better off or he will not be left to the country. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating about the termination of the war with Russia, something that all admits only” Trump “and Trump’s administration, he can,” Trump said in a post on Wednesday social networks.
“I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy did a terrible job, his country was broken, and millions died unnecessarily,” Trump said.
The then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet at Trump’s Tower in New York, New York, September 27, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Trump’s post included a series of inaccurate statements, including Zelenskyy “spoke with the United States to spend $ 350 billion in order to enter a war that he couldn’t win, which he never had to start.” In the meantime, the Congress has applied $ 175 billion since 2022 to help Ukraine, according to the Foreign Relations Council.
Trump’s comments are based on the statements he has made on his estate in Florida MAR-a-Lazla on Tuesday, where he said that Russia is not the only pressure to force Ukraine to hold elections. One of the Russian conditions for signing a peace agreement includes Ukraine that holds elections, almost a year after the five -year mandate of Zelenskyy was supposed to end.
But Zelenskyy remained in his position leading Kiev because the Ukrainian constitution prohibits the elections under martial arts. Ukraine has been under a martial art of February 2022.
In addition, Trump punished Ukraine on Tuesday because the war did not end before, and also appeared to suggest that Ukraine had started a conflict, although Russia had attacked Ukraine in 2022.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with members of the Council Council in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 13, 2024. (Aleksey Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin’s photo)
“I think I have the power to end this war and I think it goes very well. But today I heard,” Oh, we weren’t invited, “Trump said on Tuesday in MAR-a-stature.” Well, you’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it for three years (before). You should never start it. You could have made an agreement. “
In response, Zelensky handed over his own stabs to Trump and said that the US president lived in a “disinformation space” that passed by inaccurate information originating from Russia.
“We have seen this disinformation,” Zelenskyy said at a press conference on Wednesday before meeting with retired Lieutenant Keith Kellog, an American special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. “We understand that it comes from Russia.”
“I think Putin and Russians are very happy because questions are discussed,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy emphasized in recent days that Ukraine must be involved in the peacetime agreement with Russia, and on Sunday said that Ukraine would not accept the peace agreement if his country absent from the negotiations.
On Tuesday, he announced that he would delay the scheduled trip to Saudi Arabia until March, after discovering Tayyip Erdoğan during a joint press conference with Turkish President that Ukraine was not invited to discussions in the US Riyadh in Riyadh.
State Secretary Marco Rubio, White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Special Envoy in the Middle East Steve Witkoff met in Riyadh with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin’s Foreign Affairs Advisor, Yuri Ushakov will end the conflict.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other US officials met with Russian leaders to discuss the peace agreement to end the war between Russia and Ukraine at the Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo by AP)
The first action they are planning to do after meetings with Russian officials is “the re -establishment of the functionality of our missions in Washington and Moscow,” Rubiped Rubius from Associated Press and CNN.
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“In order to continue moving this road, we need to have diplomatic objects that normally operate and function,” Rubio said, according to a state department’s transcript.
Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, and Trump vowed on the mark of the 2024 campaign that he would work to end the conflict if elected.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
