“It leads me to believe that he may not be interested in ending the war; instead, he is only dragging me along, and that this needs to be handled in a different way, either by “banking” or “secondary sanctions.”
Too many people are losing their lives. Hours before the strike, Trump had charged Zelenskyy with blocking a peace agreement that would have allowed Russia to retain almost all of the Ukrainian land it had taken.
Zelenskyy has stated unequivocally that Ukraine has no intention of ceding any territory, including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
The US president referred to the most recent round of Russian attacks on civilians as “very bad timing” and ordered Putin to “stop” his missile attacks.
