US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, want to “impose” their plan for the war in Ukraine on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to former head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell.
“In my opinion, Trump and Putin have an agreement, an agreement that they forged in Alaska, and Trump is in charge of making that agreement accepted or imposed on Zelensky,” Borrell said this Monday in a speech at the World in Progress international forum, in Barcelona.
“He didn’t do it when Zelensky was in the White House (in August) because he was surrounded by all the Europeans who went there, in some way supporting him, but in the last meeting he seems to have done it,” he added.
Borrell was referring to Friday’s meeting at the White House, in which, as reported this Sunday by the Financial Times (FT), Trump warned Zelensky that Russia will destroy his country if he does not accept Moscow’s conditions to end the war.
The former high representative of the EU for foreign and security policy between 2019 and 2024 has opined that Trump has told Zelensky: “Hey, this war has to end and you have to give up territories. Period. And if you don’t, Russia is going to destroy it. That’s clear.”
