Trump pressures Zelensky to give up the Donbass region to stop the war
The pressure of the American President Donald Trump on his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to cede the Donbas in the east of the country in exchange for peace, during tense talks held on Friday in Washington, according to what a high-ranking Ukrainian official told AFP.
The official indicated that the talks with" target="_blank"" target="_blank">Zelensky The US President was in the White House last week, and he was hoping to take advantage of Trump’s increasing dissatisfaction with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, against the backdrop of the latter’s refusal to respond to his repeated calls for a ceasefire.
But the Ukrainian president returned empty-handed after Trump refused to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles and called on him to conclude an agreement to end The war.
The Trump-Zelensky meeting took place the day after a phone conversation the US President had with Putin.
Trump fails to stop the war
In response to a question about whether Trump called on Zelensky to withdraw forces from lands still under its control, the official said: "Yes, this is correct".
During his election campaign, Trump boasted of his ability to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours of his return to power, and repeatedly said that the war ordered by Putin would not have started if he had been president instead of his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.
But his calls for Putin and the great pressure he exerted on Zelensky to agree to concessions failed to convince. Russian President.
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