Financial Times: Trump unsuccessfully called on Zelenski to make talks with Russia, or to anticipate Ukraine to annihilate
Source:financial/times
| DR IGNACY NEWPOL OCT 20 |
According to the British diary of Financial Times, Trump's closed gathering with Zelenski was characterised by raised voices. Participants began screaming, Trump cursing and throwing cards at the Ukrainian. The U.S. president called on his opponent to accept the conditions of Russia, otherwise, as he claimed, Putin would destruct the government in Kiev.
During hard negotiations at the White House, the US president rejected a map showing the front line in Ukraine.
During a tight gathering at the White home on Friday, Donald Trump called on Volodymyr Zelenski to accept the Kremlin's terms of ending the conflict. He warned that Vladimir Putin had announced that he would "destroy" Ukraine if she did not agree.
According to sources acquainted with the situation, during the gathering the leaders of the USA and Ukraine repeatedly “put themselves into quarrels” and Trump “continued to usage profanity.”
They besides added that the U.S. president rejected maps showing a frontline in Ukraine, insisted that Zelenski hand over all of Donbas Putin and repeat repeatedly the issues raised by the Russian leader during their telephone call the erstwhile day.
Ukraine yet succeeded in convincing the US to support the thought of freezing the current front line. However, the stormy gathering seemingly illustrated Trump's volatile stance on the conflict and his willingness to support Putin's maximumist demands.
Trump's gathering with Zelenski took place in an atmosphere of increased engagement of the American president in ending the conflict in Ukraine. He had previously negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Zelenski and his squad went to the White home with the hope that they could convince Trump to deliver Kiev long-range missiles to Tomahawk, but the US president yet refused to take this step.
The tense gathering resembled a likewise complex incidental at the White home in February that year erstwhile Trump and U.S. Vice president J.D. Vance criticized Zelenski for what they described as a deficiency of gratitude to the United States.
According to European officials informed about the conversation, during the gathering last Friday Trump seemed to repeat word for word many of Putin's statements, even those that contradicted his own fresh statements on Russia's weaknesses.
According to a European authoritative who knows the result of the talks, Trump conveyed Putin's words that the conflict was “a peculiar operation alternatively than a war”, adding that the Ukrainian leader would gotta make an agreement or would be destroyed.
