American right-wing owners started turning the Ukraine deal of the US President Donald Trump, currently negotiating with Russia and challenging that Despot Vladimir Putin is a “war criminal who should be in prison for the rest of his life.”
Russian and American officials agreed to work on the termination of the deadliest conflict on European soil in decades, sitting in a face-to-face meeting in Saudi Arabia, while Putin was forced into the Ukrainian city of Odesa, aimed at a hospital And other citizen infrastructure.
Donald Trump Uneasy partners in Europe by admitting all the major demands of Putin before the negotiations even started. European officials now believe that Trump could withdraw American troops from the Baltic States as part of the negotiations around Ukraine, making it vulnerable to a Russian attack.
Ukrainian army officials told the sun that the friendly negotiations of Trump and Putin do nothing to scare them: “We will fight until the last death. We have nothing to lose. We don't go anywhere. '
Trump's allies in the Republican party have now started to turn against him. Roger Wicker Wicker Wicker from the Senate told Roger Wicker to CNN when he was asked whether Putin can be trusted during the negotiations: 'No. Putin is a war criminal who should be in prison for the rest of his life, if not executed. '
He added that the Russians will try to 'do everything to their advantage'. A Congress official supported Wicker's comments and told NBC: “We have zero intelligence that Putin is now interested in a real peace agreement.”
A second Western source told the broadcaster that the mass of Russian victims does not delay the momentum of Putin: '[Putin] thinks he wins. '
But Trump has long been convinced that Putin wants to end the war.
Russia reportedly focused on civilian infrastructure in the city of Odesa on Tuesday evening
Donald Trump Uneasy partners in Europe by admitting all the major demands of Putin before the negotiations even started
Ukrainian soldiers from KHARTYA Brigade receive training for shooting drones in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on February 18, 2025.
Roger Wicker Wicker Wicker from the Senate told Roger Wicker to CNN when asked if Putin could be trusted during the negotiations: “No, Putin is a war criminal”
He said to reporters on Sunday: “I think he wants to stop the fighting.”
When asked if he believes that Putin wants to control the whole of Ukraine, he said: “No, I think he wants to stop. That was my question to him, because if he continues, it would have been a big problem for us, and that would have caused me a big problem because you just can't let that happen.
“I think he wants to end it. And they want to end it quickly. '
Trump revealed that he was Pink require Ukraine to hold new elections Before a peace plan can continue.
“You now have leadership that a war has passed that should never have happened, even without the United States,” said Trump of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Tuesday-even as he said: “I personally like him personally “If you're talking about Zensky.
“You should have ended it – you should never have started it for three years,” he said, and seemed to blame Zensky for the Russian invasion of 2022.
Trump spoke with reporters, whether he would accept the urge of Russia for new elections in Ukraine-Fearing that the Kremlin would install a pro-Moscow puppet regime. Trump indicated that he was for the idea.
'We have a situation in which we have not had elections in Ukraine, where we have the state of siege, essentially state of siege in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine – I mean, I hate to say it, but he is he is With 4 percent approval rating, and where a country is blown up in blacksmith. '
Chaos flooded Odesa at night when Russian launched a large bombing of the city
Then Trump described part of the massive destruction in Ukraine, suggesting that Moscow could have imposed even more if it wanted.
'You have most cities on their sides. The buildings have collapsed. It looks like a huge demolition location. The whole – I mean, so many cities, I mean, they didn't do it in Kiev because, I think they don't want to shoot too many rockets there.
“They did it 20%, but they didn't do it 100%. If they wanted to do it 100%, it would probably happen very quickly, but you have cities that are absolutely decimated.
'And yes, I would say that you know, they want a chair at the table, you could say that people should, the people of Ukraine should not say, like, you know, it has been a long time ago since we have an election have had?
“That is not Russia, thing. That comes from me and also comes from many other countries, “said Trump.
Trump also commented on the potential for European troops that played a peace role in the case of a ceasefiring. 'If they want to do that, that's great. I'm completely for it. If they want to do that, I think that would be good. '
Regarding the American armed forces: “We don't have to put it on it, because you know, we are very far away,” Trump said.
That was after Lavrov destroyed the peace plans of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and said that NATO countries cannot patrol with the border of Russia with Ukraine 'under a different flag'.
Smoke rises in the air above the city after a Russian drone strike, amidst Russia attack on Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine 17 February 2025. The attack came after the American Russia conversations in Saudi Arabia had ended in Saudi Arabia
Zensky has demanded that Ukraine will be included in any conversations about the future
President Trump tore in the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky in comments in Mar-A-Lago and blaming for the Russian war in his country. “You should have ended it – you should never have started three years,” Trump said
'Every appearance by forces under a different flag does not change anything. It is of course completely unacceptable, “said Lavrov.
Trump rejected complaints from Ukrainian leaders about the fact that they were omitted outside their fate. It was a sharp turnaround of the mantra of the Biden administration of 'no Ukraine without Ukraine', while sent billions to military aid.
'And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think things are going very well. But today I heard, oh, well, we were not invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it – you should never have started three years. You could have closed a deal, “Trump complained.
'I could have concluded a deal for Ukraine who would have given them almost all the country, everything, almost all land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished, and no dome would have been down. But they chose not to do it that way. '
