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Donald Trump expects Ukraine to surrender territory in any peace agreement
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Donald Trump <\/a>told Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> to accept Russia\u2019s terms or risk facing destruction in an explosive meeting in Washington DC on Friday, according to reports.
President Zelensky\u2019s visit to the Oval Office allegedly turned into a \u201cshouting match\u201d, with Trump resorting to profanity, sources told the Financial Times<\/a>.
Trump was said to toss aside maps of the Ukrainian frontline, urging Zelensky to surrender the Donbas region to Russia, seemingly adopting points Vladimir Putin made to Trump in their call the day before, in which he demanded that Ukraine surrender key territory.
Zelensky was said to bring Trump back to endorsing a freeze of the current front lines.
Trump said he expected Ukraine to make territorial concessions<\/a> in any peace agreement, and indicated that under a deal authored by the White House, Russia would likely be allowed to retain territory it has occupied since 2022.
\u201cWell, he’s gonna take something. I mean, they fought and, he, uh, he has a lot a lot of property. I mean, you know…he’s won certain property,\u201d Trump told Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
Top White House officials told a reporter, \u201cYour mom,\u201d when asked who picked the location for president Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> upcoming meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin.<\/a>
Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary<\/a>, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press<\/a> reports.
When HuffPost <\/em><\/a>asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, \u201cYour mom did.\u201d White House communications director Steven Cheung also followed up with, \u201cYour mom,\u201d the outlet reports.
Donald Trump said the idea of a Putin-Trump rail tunnel linking the US and Russia was \u201cinteresting\u201d after it was floated by a Russian envoy late on Thursday night.
But when asked about it in Washington on Friday, Zelensky said “I’m not happy with this idea,” prompting laughter from the US side.
The idea envisions a rail tunnel built under the Bering Strait, connecting the two countries, and allowing for joint exploration of natural resources.
Putin\u2019s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, suggested the idea after Trump\u2019s call with Putin on Thursday.
“Imagine connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and the Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel – a 70-mile link symbolising unity,\u201d he posted on X.
He suggested the project could be taken on by Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company, at a cost of $8bn (\u00a36bn).
Russia attacked a coal mine in southeastern Ukraine on Sunday in its latest attack on the country\u2019s energy system.
Ukraine\u2019s largest private energy firm, DTEK, said it was the fourth Russian assault in two months on Ukraine\u2019s coal mining operations.
The company said there were no injuries, and 192 miners were brought to the surface.
In a tense meeting at the Oval Office on Friday, Trump contemplated giving security guarantees to both Kyiv and Moscow, which confused the Ukrainian delegation, Reuters reported.
Trump also pushed Zelensky to cede territory to Russia and resorted to profanity several times throughout the meeting.
A source, who described the meeting as \u201cpretty bad\u201d, said: \u201cThe message was, ‘Your country will freeze, and your country will be destroyed'” if Ukraine doesn’t make a deal with Russia.\u201d
During his nightly video address on Sunday, Zelensky said: “We will give nothing to the aggressor, and we will forget nothing.\u201d
Zelensky has called for a \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d meeting as he asks allies not to appease Russia upon returning home from his meeting with Trump.
\u201cI have instructed our diplomats \u2013 and have already discussed this with many leaders \u2013 to prepare a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in the near future,\u201d Zelensky said in a statement.
\u201cWe in Europe need common and strong positions. And we will have them.\u201d
The \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d is a group made up of more than 30 nations that have signed up to help defend a peace deal in Ukraine.
utin\u2019s talks move was meant to make the US transfer of such weapons less likely, said Max Bergmann, a Russia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
\u201cIt does seem that Putin’s outreach is perhaps designed to thwart the potential transfer of Tomahawks to Ukraine, so Putin is wanting to put that back in the box,\u201d Bergmann said. \u201cIt strikes me as sort of a stalling tactic.\u201d
Mykola Bielieskov, a senior analyst at Come Back Alive, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization that is a major procurer of military equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces, said Tomahawk missiles would level a playing field that is tipped toward Russia, but that they would not be a silver bullet.
\u201cWe don’t expect Russia to crumble after one, two or three successful strikes,\u201d Bielieskov said. \u201cBut it’s about pressure, constant pressure. It’s about disrupting the military-industrial complex.\u201d
Since taking office in January, Trump has regularly threatened action against Russia, only to delay those steps after talks with Putin.
Trump told Zelensky to cut a deal with Russia, warning that Putin said he would \u201cdestroy\u201d Ukraine if it did not comply, the Financial Times<\/a> reported on Sunday.
During Zelensky\u2019s visit to the Oval Office, Trump insisted that he relinquish the eastern Donbas region to Russia, repeating points Putin had made to Trump in their call the day before.
People familiar with the matter told the FT that Trump tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisting that Zelensky surrender the entire region to Russia.
The meeting allegedly turned into a \u201cshouting match\u201d, with Trump \u201ccursing all the time\u201d.
Zelensky managed to bring Trump back to endorsing a freeze of the current front lines.
Zelensky has made proposals to the US around replacing Russian energy supplies, saying that there should be zero Russian energy in Europe.
\u201cThe signals from America are clear\u2014they are ready to supply as much gas and oil as needed to replace Russian supplies,\u201d he said.
There should be zero Russian energy in Europe. The signals from America are clear\u2014they are ready to supply as much gas and oil as needed to replace Russian supplies. Our region has the necessary infrastructure and potential to contribute to Europe\u2019s energy independence way more. pic.twitter.com\/IHyUFEmvom<\/a>
Trump says the US can\u2019t give all of its weapons to Ukraine after Zelensky visited the Oval Office on Friday, pushing for the supply of Tomahawk Missiles.
Speaking to Fox News, Trump said: \u201cWe can’t give all of our weapons to Ukraine. We just can’t do that. And I’ve been very good to President Zelenskyy and to Ukraine.”
After his meeting with Zelensky, Trump suggested that the US may need to keep its Tomahawk missile supply for itself to avoid depleting its own stockpile.
“I have an obligation also to make sure that we’re completely stocked up as a country, because you never know what’s going to happen in war and peace,” Trump said.
Zelensky believes the weaponry could help get Putin to the negotiating table.
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