President Donald Trump criticized the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday for suggesting that the end of the Russian war against Ukraine is probably “very, far away.”
“This is the worst statement that Zelenskyy could have made, and the United States will not endure it for much longer!” Trump said in a publication about his real social platform.
Zelenskyy on Sunday night said he believed that war would continue for some time, while trying to offer a positive relationship about the relationship between the United States and Ukraine after his contentious White House meeting with the Republican President and Vice President JD Vance.
“I think our relationship (with the United States) will continue, because it is more than an occasional relationship,” said Zelenskyy, referring to Washington's support during the last three years of war.
But Trump seemed irritated by Zelenskyy's last comments, suggesting that he will take time for the three -year conflict to come to an end.
“It is what I was saying, this guy does not want peace whenever he has the support of the United States and, at the meeting, at the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, he stoned that they cannot do the work without the United States, a great statement has probably not been made in terms of a demonstration of force against Russia,” Trump added in his publication. “What are they thinking?”
France Flota Ukraine Proposal of Alto El Fuego
Great Britain said Monday that there were several possible proposals on the table for a possible fire of Ukraine, after France raised a proposal for an initial truce of one month that could pave the way for peace conversations.
European countries, led by Great Britain and France, are looking for options for a peace proposal that includes Ukraine after the breaking of the oval office last week between Trump and Zelenskyy.
“There are clearly a number of options on the table,” said Prime Minister Keir Starmer spokesman. “I am simply not in a comment in execution about the options.”
The White House National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, when asked about the weekend activities of Europe that join around Zelenskyy, told journalists: “Then, we welcome Europe that is assigned to Europe, but they also have to invest in the capabilities to do so.”
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France, Great Britain and potentially other European countries have offered to send troops to Ukraine in case of Alto El Fuego, but they say they would like the support of the United States, a proposal called “support.”
Zelenskyy says that a high fire must come with explicit security guarantees from the West to ensure that Russia, which invaded Ukraine three years ago and has about 20% of its territory, does not attack again. Trump has refused to give such guarantees.
Starmer organized a summit of European leaders in London on Sunday and said that European leaders had agreed to elaborate a Ukraine peace plan to present the United States.
In an interview given on his way to La Cumbre, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, raised the possibility of a high -month fire, although so far there has been no public support from other allies.
“Such truce in the air, sea and energy infrastructure would allow us to determine if Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting in good faith when he commits a truce,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, on Macron's proposal.
“And that was when the true peace negotiations could begin.”
European land troops would only be deployed in Ukraine in a second phase, Macron said in the interview published in Le Figaro.
Zelenskyy, asked if he was aware of the plan mentioned by Macron, told reporters in London: “I am aware of everything.”
European countries are adapting to what some leaders describe as the greatest reversal of politics since Washington World War II, especially after Friday's bust when Zelenskiy left the White House abruptly after a dress in front of Trump's cameras and vice president JD Vance.
The Ukrainian leader had been in Washington to sign an agreement to give the United States access to Ukrainian minerals, but left without signing it.
Speaking to Fox News, Waltz said Zelenskyy should apologize.
“What we need to hear from President Zelenskyy is that he regrets what happened, is ready to sign this mineral agreement and is ready to participate in peace conversations,” he said.
“I don't think it's too much to ask. We will see what happens in the next 48 hours, but we are certainly looking to advance in a positive way. ”
Merz says that the oval office clash 'is not spontaneous'
Friedrich Merz, the conservative who will become Germany's chancellor after winning most of the vote in an election a week ago, suggested that the argument of Friday's Oval office was a trap established beforehand for the Ukrainian leader.
“It was not a spontaneous reaction to Zelenskyy's interventions, but obviously a manufactured escalation,” he said.
“Now we must demonstrate that we are in a position to act independently in Europe,” he said.
In private, European officials have been furious, so they saw Ukraine as a betrayal, which had previously enjoyed the firm support of the United States since the invasion of Russia.
A senior official declared after the explosion: “Donald Trump has to choose whether he wants to call himself a free world leader, or leader of an extortion gang. The latter is not interesting for Europe. “
But Europeans are also working hard to keep the United States sideways. Peter Mandelson, Ambassador of Great Britain in the United States, said that Ukrainian-United States relationships should restart, since Trump's initiative to end the war was “the only show in the city.”
Trump spoke on the phone with Putin last month and then announced that the negotiations to end the war would quickly begin the blinds of the EU and Zelenskyy.
European leaders agreed that they must spend more on defense to show Trump that the continent can protect themselves. The European Union will celebrate an emergency summit on Thursday.
The president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said Tuesday that he will inform the Member States about the plans to strengthen the European Defense Industry and the EU military capabilities.
“We need a massive increase in defense, without any questions. We want a lasting peace, but lasting peace can only be built on force, and force begins to strengthen us. ”
Russia has openly given up on Friday's clash between Trump and Zelenskyy, praising Trump for altering US politics and denouncing Zelenskyy for challenging Trump's proposals.
“We see that collective West has partially begun to lose its community, and a fragmentation of the collective west has begun,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“There is a group of countries that rather constitutes the War Party, which declares its preparation to further support Ukraine in terms of supporting the war and guaranteeing the continuation of hostilities.”
–In Archives of Elizabeth Piper and John Irish of Reuters
(Additional reports from Sarah Young, Richard Lough, Makini Brice, Dmitry Antonov, Guy Faulconbridge, Doina Chiacu, Steve Holland and Angelo Lover; writing of Ingrid Melander; Mark Heinrich and Peter Graff's edition)