Pure Donald Trump. The American president-elect called this Sunday for an “immediate ceasefire” and negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine, in which hundreds of thousands of people have died “ridiculously”, according to him. “There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives have been lost in vain, too many families have been destroyed, and if this continues, it could turn into something bigger, and much worse,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
According to him, Ukraine lost “ridiculously” 400,000 soldiers and “many more civilians” while “600,000 Russian soldiers are injured or dead, in a war that should never have started and could last forever.” In his message, Donald Trump, who will take office on January 20, also assured that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “would like to conclude an agreement” to end the war.
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“Zelensky and Ukraine would like to reach an agreement and put an end to the madness,” he wrote following his meeting in Paris on Saturday, for the first time since his election, with Volodymyr Zelensky, under the auspices of the French President Emmanuel Macron. This trilateral meeting was “decided somewhat at the last moment”, according to a French diplomatic source. “I know Vladimir (Putin) well. It’s time to act. China can help. The world is waiting! », Launched Donald Trump.
The president-elect has been very critical in recent months of the billions of dollars released by the United States for Ukraine. He has repeatedly affirmed that he intends to strongly distance himself from the policy of massive support for kyiv led by Joe Biden in the war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. And he promised to resolve the war, without ever explaining how.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who for his part wants to approach a possible peace negotiation with Russia from a position of strength and with sufficient security guarantees, insisted on Saturday during his meeting with Donald Trump on the need to conclude a “just peace”. “We all want this war to end as soon as possible and in a just manner,” he commented on social networks after the tripartite meeting, specifying that the three leaders had “agreed to continue to work together.”
