According to him, the American president will be able to “understand what is happening here.”
“We respect your position. But please, before making any decisions, build any negotiation plans, come and look at people, civilians, military, destroyed hospitals, churches, killed children,” Zelensky turned to Trump.
He first urged to look at the situation on the spot and only then act according to the plan, how to end the war.
“You will understand who you have a deal with. You will understand what you did [нелегитимный президент страны-агрессора РФ Владимир] Putin, ”the president 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”.
Russia does not cease to shell the civil infrastructure of Ukraine. In particular, on April 4, the invaders hit a ballistic missile on a residential quarter in Krivoy Rog, next to the playground. As a result of the blow, 20 civilians were killed (nine children of them), at least 72 people were injured. On April 6, the ballistic missile killed a man in Kyiv, three more were injured. On April 13, on Palm Sunday, Russian invaders hit two ballistic missiles in the center of Sum. According to the latest data, 34 people were killed, another 117 were injured.
