“I believe, unfortunately, that Russian narratives prevail in the United States. And I can only work more, do everything, so as not to give completely Russian narratives to take possession of American politics, I think that it is just horror. How can one witness our losses and our suffering, to understand what the Russians do, and at the same time believe that they are not aggressors, that they did not start this war? Russian policies for America, for US policy and American politicians, ”the president said.
He noted that the United States took the position of the mediator, while Ukraine expected a stronger position from them.
“President Trump, being a strong president of a strong country, should be on the side of Ukraine. I think that America wants to be neutral. But we feel that America is talking more warmly with the Russians than with Ukraine. I think this is wrong,” Zelensky said.
Context
March 11 in Gzhidd (Saudi Arabia) took place Negotiations of Ukraine and the USA. Washington proposed immediately enter a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, Kyiv agreed. President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that This applies “Not only missiles, drones and bombs, not only in the Black Sea, but also throughout the front line.”
On March 13, the assistant to the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, Yuri Ushakov, said that Moscow did not want to cease to cease to be 30 days. He called the initiative “nothing more than a temporary respite to the Ukrainian military,” at the same time, Russia supposedly strives for “long -term peaceful settlement.”
After the American-Ukrainian and American-Russian negotiations in Saudi Arabia, on March 25, the White House said, What Ukraine and the United States “agreed to develop measures regarding the implementation of Trump and Zelensky’s agreement on the prohibition of attacks on the energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine.”
April 11 Special Representative Trump for the Middle East Steve Vitkoff arrived in Russia to meet with Putin. According to Russian propaganda media “RIA Novosti”The conversation lasted four and a half hours. The Kremlin’s website said that the theme of the meeting was “aspects of Ukrainian settlement”.
The special representative of Putin on investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev in social networks X called negotiations with Vitcoff productive. The representative of the White House Caroline Lithvt said that this meeting was “another step towards the cessation of fire” in the Russian war against Ukraine, however, according to her, in their end Trump made it clear that he was “constantly disappointed in both sides of this conflict”.
