The US president, Donald Trump, has ordered, a measure that redoubles the pressure on Volodimir Zelenski, to demonstrate will to want to close a peace agreement with Moscow, as confirmed by the White House. , in front of the television cameras, the Republican and his vice president, JD Vance, to the leader of the country invaded in the Oval Office.
After that rappe, in which and he questioned that he would really want to reach an agreement, after Zelenski had highlighted the low reliability of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, high US positions had indicated that the Republican considered cutting the military aid to kyiv who had approved his predecessor; Joe Biden, and was still pending delivery.
“The president has made it clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to also be committed to that goal. We have paused and reviewing our help to ensure that it contributes to a solution, ”he said a high position of the White House, which has spoken under the condition of anonymity.
Trump held a meeting with his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio; The head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, and National Security Minister Mike Waltz, to decide the next steps to take in the war. Asked if he had approached the suspension of the aid, the president said he had not raised it.
According to the high military position cited by Bloomberg, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, that assistance is now suspended until the US president decides that Zelenski shows a true commitment to peace. The order extends to the entire armament that is not yet found on Ukrainian soil, including the material that was already in transit or in Poland waiting to cross the border to the invaded country.
The decision represents a hard blow for kyiv, which has its main supplier of military aid in the United States. And a demonstration that neither the public messages of gratitude of Zelenski towards his until now indispensable partner – referred several times during the weekend – nor the European intervention – whose leaders gathered this Sunday in London to clothe the Ukraine and design an acceptable peace plan for kyiv and to which the US could add – managed to make a dent in Trump’s indignation.
The US president lashed out on Monday twice, on the word and through the Internet against the Ukrainian leader, of which he already interprets any statement as malicious. After Zelenski declared that he believes that peace with Russia “is still very far”, he took it as proof that his counterpart wants to delay the end of the war. And he warned him in a message on social networks that “the United States will not tolerate much more” that alleged reluctance to negotiate. Trump added in that message: “This guy does not want peace as long as he has the American support, but Europe, at the meeting he had with him, has clearly stated that he cannot do the work without the United States.”
In his statements to the press this afternoon from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Trump reiterated that for contacts between his administration and kyiv, the Ukraine will have to profusely show his gratitude to the United States for the help received for three years of war, and that the Republican figure, falsely, at 350 billion dollars (in reality it does not reach 200,000 million). He also seemed to play again with the idea that Zelenski should leave his position.
In an appearance before the press in the Roosevelt room of the White House, and an agreement with Ukraine, which will have the approval of European nations, because that is important. ” But in apparent reference, again, to Zelenski, he pointed out: “Someone may not want to make an agreement, and if someone does not want an agreement that person will not be there for a long time. He is not going to pay attention for a long time, because I think Russia wants an agreement and the Ukrainian people want an agreement, they have already suffered a lot. ”
Trump also announced that he will announce this Tuesday, in his speech before both Congress Chambers in a speech equivalent to the State of the Nation, what will be the future of the economic agreement that both presidents had planned to have signed on Friday, before the tarascated in the Oval Office. Here I launched a thread of hope to kyiv. Asked if he gave the pact for dead, he replied: “No, I don’t think so,” and reiterated that the United States needs the minerals that could extract from the Ukrainian soil.
The pact provides for the joint exploitation of the natural resources of Ukraine, something that Washington defends as necessary to recover the money invested in military aid. The Republican Administration also alleges that this document will link the two economies, will give an incentive to the United States to defend kyiv and will serve as a deterrent for Moscow for Moscow to avoid a new invasion in the future.
While the US president increases in several atmospheres the pressure on Zelenski, the White House is raised to the aggressor country, Russia, and examines the possibility of eliminating some of the sanctions that Moscow imposed during the war during the war, in a new step in the approach between the two governments and their negotiations for, according to Reuters, which cites a high American position and another person already.
The presidential office, according to this news agency, has asked the state and treasure departments to prepare a list of sanctions that could be eliminated. That list would be presented to the Russian representatives in the next meetings between delegations of the two countries to deal with diplomatic and economic relations. From the call between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in mid -February, sent from both governments have met at least twice. The first, in Riad, was led by the heads of the respective diploma, Serguéi Lavrov and Marco Rubio. The second took place last week in Türkiye.
According to Reuters, the sanctions that the US departments consider withdraws include some against various Russian entities and individuals. It is not clear what Washington could get from Moscow in exchange for that step.
Trump, who promised during the US electoral campaign to end the war in 24 hours, has adopted much more favorable positions towards Russia in the negotiation process. At no time has he advanced what he plans to demand Putin, who has described as “very intelligent” and “a genius”, while he has been greatly critical of kyiv.
