President Trump spoke from his home in Florida on Tuesday afternoon, which appears to have changed for three years in U.S. foreign policy, nearly 180 degrees, that brings his administration’s voice to Russia President Vladimir Putin's voice is more consistent than the United States' European allies. The past eighty years.
In rhetoric similar to claims Putin has used it It's reasonable for three years Ukrainian WarMr. Trump appears to blame the Ukrainian leader for the full-scale invasion of Russia after the preliminary dialogue between the White House and Moscow. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a full-scale invasion of Russia. Starting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
“I think I have the ability to end this war, and I think it's a good thing. Today I heard, 'Oh, well, we're not invited.' Well, you've been there for three years. “You An agreement could have been reached. I could have reached an agreement for Ukraine that almost all the land would be given to them. Almost all land. No one will be killed, no city will be demolished, no dome will be knocked down, but they chose not to. ”
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“Frankly, this is what Vladimir Putin would say – it doesn’t need to happen, and in fact, it’s because he wants that to happen,” Ravi, editor of Foreign Policy magazine. Major Ravi Agrawal Garrett heard Trump's speech.
Zelenskyy reacted Wednesday, saying Mr. Trump appeared to operate in the “disinformation” space that Russia raised.
Putin first sent troops into Ukraine in 2014 and captured control of the Crimean Peninsula in unilateral annexation of the United States or much of the world. The threat posed by the U.S.-led NATO alliance spread eastward The Russian border of its influence.
The United States and its European NATO allies have been dismissing the excuse, insisting that Putin had been trying to capture more Ukraine's sovereign territory and legitimize Zelenskyy's pro-Western government before the full invasion in February 2022.
“NATO is composed of 32 countries, and NATO’s position is [war in Ukraine] Stuart B. Official, the commander of the Kennedy band, one of the three NATO joint forces commanders – NATO military exercises were conducted in Romania this week to prepare for a coalition of Russia's further aggression on the Far Eastern flank of Europe.
Mr. Trump made fierce remarks, sometimes insistent on facts, a sign of his strategy to negotiate with foreign powers – including his unfounded claims of his Mara Lago mansion Tuesday, namely Zelenskyy The recognition rate dropped to 4% to 4%, when Ukraine's domestic vote showed more than 50%. This coincides with the Kremlin propaganda and calls for new elections in Ukraine and proposes a proposal that although the country's constitution is impossible to vote in a state of emergency triggered by the Russian invasion.
Mr. Trump’s extraordinary support for Russian rhetoric has raised constant concerns in Europe that the United States may be shifting the enormous impact of its geopolitical and security influence from deep democracies in the West to dictatorship in the ideologically conservative East Among them is Putin.
Sergei Lavrov, a long-time confidant of the Russian leader, acknowledged the shift on Wednesday, praising Mr. Trump and said “The remarks that NATO is the main cause of the Ukrainian conflict are a signal that he understands our position. ”
“I think the United States intends to remove barriers to promising projects, as discussed yesterday. We are already starting to get rid of the edge of the abyss where the Beden administration leads our relationship,” the experienced Russian diplomat said.
Zelenskyy has softened his position in recent months, seemingly accepting that he may have to cut some of his country's Russian occupation of territory in the final peace deal, but he made it clear that Ukraine must participate in negotiations on a ceasefire agreement, as well as a Negotiations of the ceasefire agreement and his country will require security assurances from the United States and the West to protect it from future Russian attacks.
“We see a lot of false information, which comes from Russia,” Zelenskyy said Wednesday. “Unfortunately, President Trump has all the respect … living in this space of false information.”
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The Ukrainian leader said he wanted to end the war “this year” but he warned the Trump administration to help Russia's authoritarian regime “break through” the isolation it brought in the form of sanctions and critical diplomacy – by the The state launches unwarranted attacks.
In an article on his own truth social media platform, Mr. Trump doubled his criticism of Zelenskyy late Wednesday, accusing him of doing “a terrible job” and “playing” the Biden administration to convince the United States Spending hundreds of billions of dollars “entered into a war that could not be won.”
Trump repeated the misleading Kremlin rejection of Zelensky “refuse to participate in the election” and even called Zelenskyy a “dictator”, warning Ukrainian leaders that he “better to act quickly or he won't leave a country.”
“At the same time, we are successfully negotiating the end of the war with Russia, and it's all acknowledged that 'Trump' and the Trump administration can do it,” Trump said.
It is unclear that Mr. Trump’s special envoy, Keith Kellogg, arrived in Kiev on Wednesday, and he will “sit and listen” to Zelenskyy’s administration after the initial conversation between the Ukrainians and the Kremlin. The view of the US president that Ukraine can say that Ukraine can or should stop or stop wars that are much more armed and better armed, The dictatorial one is Neighbor.
Upon arrival, retired three-star general Kellogg said he was happy to visit Kyiv “just a few days before the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” seemingly admitting which side initiated the war.
Kellogg called his visit “a chance to have some good, substantial negotiations”, but the obvious signs that Ukraine wants is that the world’s largest military force will somehow protect it from the future. Russian invasion. Zelenskyy has long said that this could be in the form of NATO membership or NATO forces deployed to carry out the ceasefire.
Russian Foreign Minister said the Kremlin would not accept both things after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held bilateral talks with Lavrov in Arabia on Tuesday. Russia has ruled out any exchange of occupied territories with Ukraine, and it is unclear that the Trump administration can try to win concessions from Russia for the peace deal.
“We understand the need for security assurance,” Kellogg told Ukrainian public broadcaster Sustilne Novyny after arriving in Kyiv on Wednesday. “For us, the importance of the country's sovereignty Sex and the independence of this country are also clear… Part of my mission is to sit down and listen.”
He said he will share what he learned during his trip to Kiev with Mr. Trump and Mr. Rubio to “make sure we do it correctly.”
A Kremlin spokesman said that even after the war broke out in Ukraine, Putin and President Trump may face each other in the face of the month.
Haley Ott contributed to the report.
