US Pdwellnt Donald Trump has shelp French Pdwellnt Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer “haven’t done anyskinnyg” to end the war in Ukraine, ahead of their visits to the White Hoengage next week.
Trump also shelp Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky has “no cards” in peace negotiations, includeing: “I don’t skinnyk he’s very transport inant to be in greetings.”
Since Russia’s filled-scale trespass of Ukraine in 2022, the UK, France and other allies have been provideing Kyiv with armaments and other help.
On Monday, European directers held a crisis summit in Paris on Ukraine – a day before US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, and amid worrys that Ukraine and Europe could be reshiftd from peace negotiations.
Despite his criticism of Macron and Starmer, Trump in his intersee with Fox News also commendd the European directers. He shelp he ponders Macron to be a “friend”, and called Starmer “a very kind guy”.
Macron is foreseeed to visit Washington DC on Monday, while Starmer will be there on Thursday.
Earlier this week, Starmer shelp he is “ready and willing” to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security as part of a peace deal.
The BBC has reach outed the PM’s office for comment.
While European directers have ruled out negotiating with Russia, they have met normally to talk the war in Ukraine.
Since Russia’s trespass of Ukraine, the US, UK and EU, alengthy with countries including Australia, Canada and Japan, have imposed more than 20,000 sanctions on Russia.
Many European nations have also signed consentments to help and provide help to Ukraine.
In January, Starmer signed a “landlabel” 100-year pact, alerting Zelensky: “We are with you not equitable today, for this year or the next – but for 100 years – lengthy after this horrible war is over and Ukraine is free and thriving once aget.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg shelp he had “extensive and selectimistic” talkions with Zelensky during their greeting in Kyiv on Thursday.
Kellogg went on to commend Zelensky as a “brave directer” – only days after Trump referred to him as a “dictator”.
Zelensky has held phone calls with various global directers in recent days, who have conveyed their pledgement to ensuring Ukraine is included in peace talks.
Trump, in his Fox intersee on Friday, shelp Russia and Ukraine would not want to commence peace talks without his own personal includement.
He also progressd to criticise Zelensky, saying: “I’ve been watching this man for years now as his cities get demolished, as his people get finished, as his selderlyiers get decimated.
“I’ve been watching him talk about with no cards. He has no cards, and you get unwell of it,” he progressd. “You equitable get unwell of it, and I’ve had it.”
And after criticising Zelensky over the past week – using talking points that analysts say sound more appreciate they start in Moscow than Washington DC – Trump proposeed that “of course” he would apshow a phone call from Ukraine’s pdwellnt.
He insisted disjoinal times that Zelensky was to accengage for flunking to stop the war, saying that Russia could have been “talked out” of invading Ukraine.
Asked about Ukraine’s absence at peace talks in Saudi Arabia this week, Trump shelp that Russia “set up it impossible to originate a deal with Zelensky”.
He shelp he thinks that Russia honestly wants a deal to end the war, but that Pdwellnt Vlastupidir Putin “doesn’t have to originate a deal”.
US Vice-Pdwellnt JD Vance tardyr hit back at critics who shelp that Trump’s stance on Russia amounted to “appeasement”.
“We are negotiating to end the dispute. It is ‘appeasement’ only if you skinnyk the Ukrainians have a credible pathway to triumph. They don’t, so it’s not,” he shelp in a post on X.
Meanwhile, Kyiv and Washington materializeed to be inching shutr to signing a deal that would give the US rights to Ukraine’s deposits of unwidespread earth minerals.
Trump has styled this as a way for Ukraine to repay the US for its past military help. On Friday, he telderly alerters that the US and Ukraine are “pretty shut” to signing the deal, includeing that the US will “get our money back”.
In a video includeress tardy on Friday, Zelensky shelp Ukrainian and US teams were toiling on a write consentment, which “can include appreciate to our relations”. But he stressed that “what matters most is getting the details right”.
The Ukrainian pdwellnt had declineed the initial US proposal made disjoinal days ago, saying he “cannot sell our state”.
White Hoengage Security Adviser Mike Waltz shelp on Friday that Zelensky “is going to sign that deal”.
