The position of the United States of America and the administration Trump regarding the war in Ukraine has been inconsistent. The different treatments for Donald Trump a Volodymyr Zelenskyduring meetings between the two, over time.
The first meeting between Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine happened in sSeptember 2019, in New York, during a session of the United Nations General Assembly and less than six months after Volodymyr Zelenskywith some surprise, to have won the presidential elections Ukrainian.
At the height still in a suit and tie, Zelensky mentioned-se meeting as the best ever with Ukraine’s greatest ally. Donald Trump was more or less halfway through the first term. A Ukraine and Russia have been fighting an undeclared war in Donbas since 2014.
The second encounter between the two leaders would only happen cfive years later, in September 2024, in full United States presidential campaign – and when the candidate republicangave it the firsts signs of misalignment with Kiev.
A month later, the president of Ukraine and the then president-elect Donald Trump met in Paris at a meeting promoted by Emmanuel Macron to discuss the situation in Ukraine.
Em fJanuary 2025, Trumpat the beginning of the second termreceived Zelensky in the White House for the first time. One undiplomatic reception and which generated a lot of controversy.
The reception for the Ukrainian president contrastor with the red carpet that, less than six months later, Donald Trump extended to Vladimir Putin at the Alaska summit. The meeting ended without any practical results, but with the indication that, in exchange for peace, Ukraine would have to cede territory.
Less than a month later, Donald Trump He radically changed his opinion again, he spoke about the possibility of Ukraine winning the war and to return to the borders of 1991.
