The Kremlin claimed on Monday that the screaming match with President Trump at Ukrainian President Voldymee Zelensky's White House proved he must be pushed into a peace deal.
“Of course, what happened at the White House on Friday showed how difficult it is to reach the trajectory of reconciliation around Ukraine,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin.
“The Kiev regime and Zelensky do not want peace. They want to continue the war.
“It's very important for someone to force Zelensky himself to change his position,” he added.
“We have to make sure that someone wants peace from Zelensky. If Europeans can do that, they should be respected and praised.”
The Russian statement comes just days after President Trump and Vice President JD Vance clashed with the Ukrainian leader of the Oval Office when the president said he downplayed Zelensky and risked triggering World War I.
Zelensky said on Sunday that he believed he could save his ties with Trump and that he still believed he was ready to sign a deal in US ukrane minerals, but Ukraine would not acknowledge territory to Russia as part of the peace deal.
Meanwhile, Trump has urged people to stop focusing on Putin and be more concerned about illegal immigrants entering the United States.
“We need to spend more time worrying about Putin, and we need to worry about immigrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, people in mental institutions entering our country. Trump wrote in True Social Post on sunday.
The clashes in the oval office led European leaders to defend Zelensky. British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer said he agreed to create a Ukrainian Peace Plan for them to present to the United States at the London summit.
The Kremlin said the summit was an attempt to continue the war and not seek peace.
“We know… we've seen that fragmentation of the mass western has begun,” Peskov said.
“In fact, there are still groups of countries that make up the War Party, which declares that they are ready to further support Ukraine in terms of supporting the war and ensuring continued hostility.”
The Kremlin added that Russia will continue its dialogue with Washington on bilateral relations and that Moscow will continue to push what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine.
With post wire
