On Wednesday, President Trump and his great aides demanded that Ukraine fall into an American designer proposal that mainly gives Russia all the lands it gained in the war, while providing only mysterious security assurances.
The American plan, which would explicitly prevent Ukraine from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was rejected by President Voludimir Zellinski from Ukraine, who has long confiscated him with Mr. Trump Open Two months ago in the Oval Office. The proposal appears to be a recognition of the United States to recognize 2014 for the independence of the Crimea, the Ukraine region.
Mr. Zellinski said: “There is nothing to talk about.” “This violated our constitution. This is our lands, Ukraine’s lands.”
Mr. Trump restored social media that the Ukrainian President was “inflammation” and said he would only extend the “field of killing.”
Mr. Trump suggested that the proposal was about to accept by President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia. “I think we have a deal with Russia,” he told reporters at the White House. He pointed out that the problem is Mr. Zellinski.
“I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelinski,” he said. “Until now the most difficult.”
Vice President JD Vance struck a similar topic while traveling in India.
He said that the United States “will go” to the peace process if both Ukraine and Russia refuse to accept the American conditions. But Mr. Zelinski was clearly the goal.
“We have issued a very clear proposal for both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it is time for them to either say yes or the United States to stay away from this process,” Mr. Vans told reporters. “The only way to stop the killing is to put armies their weapons, to freeze this and continuously with the best construction work of Russia and the best Ukraine.”
It was not clear whether the American ads were part of a pressure campaign to force Mr. Zelinski to make regional concessions or whether they are designed to create an excuse to abandon American support to Ukraine.
But the United States mainly settles on a deal that prefers the aggressor in the war, and it forces Ukraine to accept rewriting its forced borders and abandons its hope to eventually join NATO, as did the other previous Soviet republics.
The European allies, who have been in recent weeks, have accused more military and economic support to Mr. Zeilinski, that Mr. Trump mainly changes both sides in the war, and that his real goal is to provide Ukraine aside and find a way to normalize American relations with Moscow. Mr. Trump and his higher assistants have already started discussing the possibility of lifting sanctions on Russia, hitting energy and minerals with Mr. Putin.
Whatever the motives of Mr. Trump, what happened on Wednesday indicated the potential abandonment of the American commitment to Mr. Zellinski that the United States will never participate in talks that excluded the country from determining its fate.
While the United States has not issued a text to its proposal, European officials who saw this say that according to its conditions, the United States will know the Crimea – which Mr. Putin illegally seized in 2014 – as Russian lands. While the peninsula was part of Russia for hundreds of years, the Soviet leader of Ukraine gave it to Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev, nearly seven decades.
In his post on social media, Mr. Trump said he does not ask Mr. Zelinski to recognize Crimea Crimea, although the United States plan will invite Washington to do so.
“Nobody asks Zelinski to recognize the Crimea as Russian lands, but if he wants the Crimea, then why did they not fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without shooting?” Mr. Trump wrote.
Just three years ago, Marco Rubio, who was then Senator and now, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mr. Trump, amended to prevent the United States from recognizing any Russian demand for sovereignty over parts of Ukraine.
He said at the time, at the time, a reference to Taiwan: “The United States cannot identify Putin’s claims or risk a dangerous precedent for other authoritarian regimes, such as the Chinese Communist Party, to imitate them.”
Mr. Rubio is now a defender of Mr. Trump’s approach, even if Ukraine was forced to surrender 20 percent of the country to Mr. Putin and give the Russian leader most of the war goals.
Mr. Trump takes other steps to calm down Mr. Putin. He dismantled the units or neutrality of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice accused of gathering evidence of the potential war crimes committed by Russia, including the killing of civilians in Boch, outside Kiev, shortly after the Russian invasion.
It is not clear what is happening if Mr. Zellinski refuses to decline. Mr. Trump suggested that he simply wash his hands from the peace voltage – one of them once said he was 24 hours – and in the words of Mr. Rubio, “Continue.”
Indeed, the United States has restricted arms shipments to Ukraine, although some weapons are still passing. He resumed the participation of the American intelligence, after a temporary stop to pressure Kiev to come to the negotiating table.
But Mr. Trump continued his efforts to correct the Ukrainian leader, who was happy by legislators from both parties who likened him to Churchill. “The situation for Ukraine is harsh,” said Mr. Trump. “He can get peace, or he can fight for another three years before losing the country.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Yulia Sfridinko, the Ukrainian Minister of Economy, pledged that her country “will never recognize the occupation of the Crimea.” Writing on x, social networking site, is He said “Ukraine is ready to negotiate – but not to surrender. There will be no agreement for Russia the strongest foundations it needs to reassemble its ranks and return with more violence.”
Mr. Vans told the correspondents in India that under the American proposal, “we will freeze the regional lines at some level near their place today.”
He added: “The current lines, or somewhere near them, are the place that I was in the end, I think, you will draw the new lines in the conflict.” “Now, of course, this means that the Ukrainians and the Russians will have to abandon some of the lands they currently own.”
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Kremlin welcomed the statements of Mr. Vans.
“The United States continues its mediation efforts, and we definitely welcome these efforts,” said Dmitry Peskov spokesman. “Our interactions are continuing, but, certainly, there are many nuances about the settlement of peace that must be discussed.”
The aggressive payment for an agreement by the administration of Mr. Trump is a blow to European leaders, who spent weeks in an attempt to support the position of Ukraine by hearing peace talks with the United States. The first effort held last week in Paris, and another session is scheduled to start on Wednesday in London before Mr. Rubio announced that he was no longer attending.
Mr. Rubio’s decision to cancel the arrest of the British government, according to a British official, said David Lami, the Secretary of State, was fully expecting the Foreign Minister in London on Wednesday.
Diplomats are still at the lowest level of Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, they bring technical conversations. But the absence of Mr. Rubio or Steve Whitchov, the chief negotiator for Mr. Trump in Russia, renewed the concerns that Ukraine and Europe were marginalized as the Trump administration appears to be working primarily with Russia.
Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, said on Tuesday that the Master Witkev was scheduled to be in Moscow later this week.
Andrei Yermak, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian President, arrived in London on Wednesday morning for size talks, along with the defense and foreign affairs ministers of his country.
“Despite everything,” he wrote on X, the social media platform, after its arrival, “We continue to work for peace.”
Reports previously contributed Ségolène le stradic From Paris Stephen Erlangeger and Anton Troyanovsky From Berlin Natalia Vasiliva From Istanbul Andrew E. Church From Kyiv, Ukraine; and Julian Barnes and John Asmai From Washington.
