Following Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday, Ukrainian officials are voicing concern over the US president’s apparent shift in tone after Putin demanded full control of Donetsk and Luhansk as a condition for ending the war.
On Truth Social, Trump said he wanted to “go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which often times do not hold up”.
Speaking to the Financial Times about Putin’s demands, a senior Ukrainian official said: “This is a stab in the back.”
Another senior Ukrainian official said: “He just wants a quick deal.”
Meanwhile, Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told the outlet that the outcome of the summit was “awful”.
“go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which often times do not hold up”
And who’s to say that asshole Putin won’t start up the war again? If he doesn’t honor ceasefires, how can you trust him with peace by giving him what he wants? That’s rewarding a dog for bad behavior.
This is exactly it. Hrs just annoyed we all didn’t let him do what he did with crimea and slowing him down. He’s not stopping till ukraine is Russia again even if its 1 region every couple years
And he won’t stop with Ukraine.
He’s trying to put the Russian Empire back together.
Even if Putin did honor ceasefires, ending the war on any terms short of Crimea being returned to Ukraine (let alone the other territories) would be rewarding his bad behavior.
He is desperate for the peace prize and would happily negotiate anything at all on someone’s behalf without consulting them
So absolutely nothing have changed?
Who would have thought…
The issue with giving up territory beyond the current front lines is that this would leave the Ukrainian fortified positions behind enemy lines and if Russia continues the war then there’s nothing stopping them from advancing. That’s why Russia doesn’t want a ceasefire either because Ukraine would just use that time to further build up their current defensive positions making it even harder for Russia to advance in the future.
Trump is such a bitch, the US is only selling weapons - just sell them and stfu.
The EU leaders need to grow some fucking backbone.