– The president is frustrated. His patience is exhausted. I want to do what is good for the world. He wants peace. He wants to stop killing, but for this you need both sides of the war – Leavitt told journalists in the White House. “Unfortunately, President Zełenski seems to go in the wrong direction,” she added.
Earlier, the American president attacked Zełnski on his Truth Social social platform, accusing him of extending the war. He also stated that the claim of the Ukrainian president that “Ukraine would not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea” is “very harmful to peace negotiations with Russia, because Crimea was lost years ago.”
“Final” US proposal
Trump also stated that the leader of Ukraine can reach peace, or “fight for the next three years before he loses the whole country,” said the AP agency.
On the same day, the vice president of JD Vance said that the negotiations reached the moment of truth, and the American proposal assumes “freezing the demarcation of the lines at a level similar to the present”, with both sides would have to give up some of the territories they currently have.
A high -ranking European official, familiar with ongoing talks with the participation of the American team, said that the proposal that the United States currently consider to be “final” was originally presented last week in Paris, where it was described as “only ideas” that can be changed.
Trump repeated many times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “within 24 hours” after taking office.
Although European allies are distrustful of the American proposal to replace the land in Ukraine in exchange for peace, the official with whom the agency talked to, said that some allies admit that Russia is heavily tied up in whole or part of five regions of Ukraine.
