Is he ready to give up? High -ranking US officials let the idea that the Ukrainian president may be forced to leave after.
Zelenski himself replied that “it will not be easy” to replace.
Angry Republicans
The rage that caused the Republican ranks in the fiasco of Friday’s meeting at the White House does not seem to retreat. “We need a leader with whom we can negotiate (who can) negotiate with the Russians at some point and end this war,” said Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Walts.
“If it is clear that President Zelenski, either for personal reasons or politicians, deviates from the desire to end the battles in his country, then I believe we have a real problem,” Walts added, speaking to CNN.
The, with the US president and the Vice -President, accusing the Ukrainian leader of being unknown to the US for the help they have offered to his country.
led to the cancellation of the signing of an agreement on Ukrainian minerals. Washington believes that this agreement will link the US to Ukraine in a way that will prevent Russia from attacking its neighboring country again.
Withdrawal The only Zelenski option says Trump
The US president reiterated yesterday with a post on Truth Social that “Zelenski will have no choice but to withdraw and accept the terms that Trump set”.
For his part, the Ukrainian president said yesterday before leaving London where he attended dozens of leaders mainly in Europe, that he was ready to sign the mineral agreement.
“The deal remains on the table and will be signed if all sides are ready,” he said. “We had agreed to sign the mineral agreement, so we are ready to sign it”, “we are constructive,” Zelenski said.
Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson did not seem to be convinced, saying that “something must change”.
‘Retreated or left,’ the US calls Zelenski
“Whether (Zelenski) will return to the logic and table of negotiations with gratitude, or someone else will have to lead the country to do so,” he said on the NBC television network.
On Friday, shortly after the confrontation with the White House, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham said: “Zelenski must change his attitude in depth or leave.”
Speaking of “a huge missing opportunity”, Mike Walts said “shocked” by Zelenski’s attitude, while stressing that he had doubts about the Ukrainian president’s desire to “once want to negotiate” with Russian President Vladimir.
According to him, an agreement to end the war would require “territorial concessions” from Ukraine and “security guarantees from Europe”.
Zelenski responded ironically by proposing to give Lindsay Graham “Ukrainian citizenship”, as “I would start to hear him as a citizen of Ukraine, to find out who should become president”.
‘It won’t be easy to replace’ replies Ukrainian president
“It will not be easy to replace,” the Ukrainian president said in an interview with British media today. “This is not just the election, they should also prevent me from being a candidate and that would be a little more complicated,” he said.
The Ukrainian president, who seeks to receive security guarantees for his country, also recalled that he has proposed to resign Ukraine’s accession to NATO in return.
“If there is NATO and the end of the war, that would mean I finished my mission,” he repeated last night.
After all, some Republicans in the US are opposed to calls for Zelenski’s resignation.
“Honestly, this would just sink Ukraine into chaos,” said Senator James Lankford.
What do polls show in the US
A poll published yesterday by CBS yesterday, 52% of Americans said they were in favor of Ukraine’s support, compared to 4% in favor of support for Russia, while 44% support no side.
Many US newspapers have said that the Trump government is considering canceling military aid to Ukraine, already approved by the previous government of Joe Biden.
The shift made by the Republican president to Russia and his telephone communication with Putin on February 12 are still causing disruption and shock to Europe and the world.
Max Bergman expert at the Washington -based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimated that “this is in question the future of Ukraine and the future of NATO”.
Ilon Trump, a close adviser to Trump, in a post on X on Saturday said he “agrees” with the comment of an influencer who said that “the time has come (the US) to leave NATO and the UN”.
