The US and Russia are holding peace negotiations without Ukraine
Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Cliff Sims joins the “American Report” to explain the state of talks between the US and Russia that ended the war with Ukraine.
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Voldimia Zelensky exchanged a brief insult on Wednesday after a meeting with US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, who have no Ukrainian representatives.
Trump has repeatedly said he is the only person who can end the war between Ukraine and Russia, and White House spokesman Caroline Leavitt said Trump had come into contact with Zelensky. He said he is working to ensure that “all political parties are listening.” Peace negotiations.
However, Ukraine's absence from Tuesday's negotiations appears to have exacerbated the wedge between Washington and Kiev.
Zelensky accused Trump of perpetuating “disinformation” in Russia on Wednesday, but Trump applauded and named Zelensky the “dictator” who failed his country.
“The unelected dictator Zelensky will move fast or he will not leave the country. Meanwhile, we are well negotiating the end of the war with Russia. Trump said in a social media post Wednesday. Ta.
“I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job, his country has shattered and millions have died unnecessarily,” Trump said.
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On September 27, 2024, at Trump Tower in New York City, New York, at the time, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Voldy Mill Zelenkies. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Trump's post included a series of inaccurate statements, including Zelensky “speaks the United States to spend $350 billion and fails to enter a war that cannot be won.” Meanwhile, the Council of Foreign Relations said that since 2022, the assembly has allocated $175 billion to aid Ukraine.
Trump's comments were built on a statement he submitted on Tuesday at the Florida Mar a Lago Estate. There he said that Russia was not the only thing that put pressure on Ukraine to hold elections. One of Russia's terms of signing a peace agreement includes the Ukrainian election, which will hold elections for nearly a year, when Zelensky's five-year term is expected to end.
However, Zelenskyy remains in his position as Kiev leads as the Ukrainian constitution holds elections under martial law. Ukraine has been under martial law since February 2022.
Additionally, Trump disciplined Ukraine on Tuesday for not ending the war sooner, and appears to suggest that Ukraine has begun a conflict despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Ta.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was holding a meeting with members of the Security Council in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Monday, May 13, 2024. (Photos of Aleksey Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin pool)
“I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, 'Oh, we weren't invited,'” Trump said Tuesday. He said in María Lago. “Well, you were there for three years. You should have finished it three years ago. You should have never started it. You could have done a trade It must be.”
In response, Zelensky delivered his own jab to Trump, saying that the US president lived in a “disinformation space” that pitched inaccurate information born from Russia.
“We've seen this disinformation,” Zelensky said at a press conference on Wednesday before meeting with Ukraine and Russia US envoy, Lt. Gen. Keith Kelog. “We understand that it comes from Russia.”
“I think Putin and the Russians are very happy because the questions are being discussed with them,” Zelenkie said.
Zelenskyy recently stressed that Ukraine must be involved in negotiations on a peace agreement with Russia, and said on Sunday that Ukraine would not accept the peace agreement if his country lacked negotiations.
He also announced on Tuesday that he would postpone planned trips to Saudi Arabia until March after revealing at a joint press conference with the Ukrainian president that Ukraine had not been invited to US-Russia debate in Riyadh. I did.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and Middle Eastern envoy Steve Witkov haveh how to end the conflict with Russian Foreign President Sergei Lavrov and Foreign Secretary Vladimir Putin I've been out.
Russia's top US authorities meet in Saudi Arabia to launch talks on the Ukrainian war without Kiev officials
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other US authorities have been involved in the Russian leadership to discuss a peace agreement to end the war at Russia and the Ukrainian Palace at Dyriya Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 I met him. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
The first lawsuit the US will be taking after a meeting with Russian officials is to “re-establish the functioning of their respective missions in Washington and Moscow.”
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“We need diplomatic facilities that operate and function properly to ensure we can continue this path,” Rubio said.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and Trump vowed to work on the campaign trail in 2024 to end the conflict if elected again.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
