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Donald Trump told a Fox anchor that he expects Ukraine to make territorial concessions in any peace deal his administration could potentially make to bring peace between Kiev and Moscow. The four-year-long war between Russia and Ukraine ended.
in an interview that aired sunday morning promise Along with Maria Bartiromo, the US President indicated that under the terms of the agreement written by the White House, Russia will be allowed to retain the territory it occupies from February 2022.
After this, Trump spoke on phone with Russia’s Vladimir Putin for two hours on Thursday. Met with Volodymyr Zelensky the next day in the white house where all signs The tension that had arisen between the two men at a meeting this spring had vanished.
On Sunday, Bartiromo asked Trump if he got the sense from Putin during that conversation that he was “prepared to end this war without taking significant assets out of Ukraine?”
Interrupting, Trump replied, “I did, I did.” But as the Fox host finished his question and asked whether Putin would return Ukrainian territory, his answer changed.
“Well, he’s gonna take some. I mean, they fought and, he’s got a lot of property. I mean, you know … he’s won some property,” Trump said, before sarcastically quipping: “You know, we’re the only country that goes into war, wins the war and then leaves.”
This is a sharp deviation The aggressive rhetoric that the US President was pushing in late September, when he was Urges Ukraine to continue fighting Until he regained all his lost territory. Ukraine has not indicated a willingness to recognize Russian claims to the Crimea and Donbass regions, including the cities of Donetsk and Mariupol.
As peace talks with Russia stalled over the summer, Trump toughened his stance against Moscow and seemed to be coming to terms with what many in Washington’s foreign policy establishment have believed since 2022 – that Vladimir Putin has no interest in peace without significant Ukrainian concessions beyond what happens on the battlefield. However, in the past week, Trump has renewed his efforts aimed at securing a peace deal as he becomes emboldened by the White House’s shaky ceasefire between Israel and Israel on Gaza. that ceasefire on sunday seemed to be wavering Both sides made allegations of violations.
In September, Trump wrote that Ukraine could “take our country back to its original form and, who knows, maybe go even further!” Truth in social posting. In other statements, he indicated interest in increasing further pressure on Moscow, including through a congressional sanctions package or the sale of weapons such as Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.
The Tomahawks much desired by Mr. Zelensky have a range of about 1,600 km (995 miles), but experts have warned that it could take years for Ukraine to provide the equipment and training needed to use them effectively. ukrainian leader the requested To Trump during a visit to the White House on Friday; Zelensky sees further US military aid, including the delivery of new weapons systems, as the most effective action to pressure Russia to return to the negotiating table.
“Yes, I can tell him [Putin]If the war is not settled, we may well do it. We probably won’t, but we can do it,” the president said in early October. “Do they want Tomahawks headed in their direction? I don’t think so.”
He endorsed that latter view following Russia’s threats and his conversation with Putin on Thursday, and his latest statement will likely leave many in Washington wondering whether his position has really evolved. Putin described the issue as a red line for US-Russia relations, while his close ally and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko warned it would risk a “nuclear war” in Europe.
After talking to the Russian leader, Trump also agreed to meet Putin in Budapest. At an unknown future date.