(COMBO) This mix of images created on February 25, 2025 exhibits 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 take care of the USA 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 publish on Fact Social, Trump mentioned that Zelenskyy may “finish the conflict with Russia nearly instantly, if he desires to, or he can proceed to combat.”
“Bear in mind the way it began. No getting again Obama given Crimea (12 years in the past, with out a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE,” Trump added within the publish, 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 extensively condemned by the worldwide neighborhood. 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 various 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 instructed Zelenskyy after the assembly with Putin that Moscow had supplied to freeze a lot of the entrance strains in Ukraine in change for Kyiv withdrawing from the japanese areas of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Zelenskyy had rejected the proposal forward of the summit, saying this could deprive Ukraine of key defensive positions and permit Moscow to launch additional offensives into Ukraine. Kyiv presently 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 massive 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.”
