Prodded by the Euro-Globalists like UK’s Keir Starmer and France’s Emmanuel Macron, and cheered by the world’s USAID-media, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky keeps undercutting the peace process with his grandstanding, making all kinds of demands that he will never get.
Besides torpedoing today’s negotiations, the Kiev leader may have provoked the US Donald J. Trump’s administration one too many times, risking an American withdrawal from negotiations that would guarantee a much faster collapse of his combat capabilities on his losing war.
Trump took to Truth Social to blast Zelensky’s behavior after another rug-pull from him.
“Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is boasting on the front page of The Wall Street Journal that, ‘Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There’s nothing to talk about here’.
This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion. Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory but, if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired? The area also houses, for many years before ‘the Obama handover,’ major Russian submarine bases.
It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country. I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever.
The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the “killing field,” and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with ‘no cards to play’ should now, finally, GET IT DONE. I look forward to being able to help Ukraine, and Russia, get out of this Complete and Total MESS, that would have never started if I were President!”
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt expanded on Trump’s words for the media, called out Zelensky for ‘litigating the negotiations in the press’:
President Trump is frustrated with Zelensky pic.twitter.com/6jKKkFZbDG
— Karli Bonne’ (@KarluskaP) April 23, 2025
“To make a good deal. Both sides have to walk away a little bit unhappy. And unfortunately, President Zelensky has been trying to litigate this peace negotiation in the press, and that’s unacceptable to the president.
These should be closed door negotiations. The president’s national security team, his advisors, have exuded significant time, energy, and effort to try to bring this war to an end. The American taxpayer has funded billions of dollars in this effort, and enough is enough.
The president’s frustrated. His patience is running very thin. He wants to do what’s right for the world.
He wants to see peace. He wants to see the killing stop. But you need both sides of the war willing to do that.
And unfortunately, President Zelensky seems to be moving in the wrong direction. Does the president think that Europeans are doing enough, and some countries are spending more in defense, reaching the 2% threshold? So what does the president think about European support for Ukraine? Look, the president has always maintained that Europe always needs to do more, whether it’s in the effort to end this war in Russia and Ukraine, whether it is in terms of their spending when it comes to NATO and their own defense spending, as well. He’s made that clear to them in private and also in public.”
A voice for Russian maximalism, former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev trashed the Ukranian leader:
Trump: Kiev’s refusal to recognize Crimea as Russian harms negotiations to resolve the conflict.
We’ve been waiting! I hope different European freaks like Starmer and Macron will hear this. And then the typhoid louse of Kiev, who is in narcotic oblivion, will be brought to life.— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) April 23, 2025
“Trump: Kiev’s refusal to recognize Crimea as Russian harms negotiations to resolve the conflict.
We’ve been waiting! I hope different European freaks like Starmer and Macron will hear this. And then the typhoid louse of Kiev, who is in narcotic oblivion, will be brought to life.”
Former Zelensky top aide, Oleksiy Arestovych, explained why giving up the 4 regions now is the lesser evil.
“Why should we give 4 regions? For one simple reason, because in six months or a year you will give 6. If you are not smart enough, you will give 8. Is that reason enough? It is a very simple situation. Today, to give 4 is to pay for the passage, which actually looked like one toilet flush for three or four years, for all the mistakes. To recognize those mistakes, to recognize, to actually say, ‘yes, we’re giving it all away, we’re cutting it off’.
How do we give it back? De facto. It’s clear that de jure no one will give it back. That’s all, and get a chance to reset the project. This is both a pass for three or four years and an entrance ticket to a new reality. And Ukraine can be another, much better – to change the way of economic management. ‘We will fight to the last patriot, we will not give up the Russian-speaking regions.’ And why were you suppressing them, these Russian-speaking regions?”
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko also harshly criticized the Kiev leader, said ‘the situation is f—ked’.
Slavyangrad reported:
“’According to all my contacts, there is only one question: why is Zelensky coming out and commenting on something? Couldn’t he just keep quiet for a bit?’ the Ukrainian MP writes.
He considers the US terms of the deal with Russia to be ‘normal’ and called for ‘looking into the eyes of reality’, admitting that without US help the situation will only get worse.
‘Unfortunately, we cannot recapture our territories with the help of the US right now, so why should we recapture them without their help? How? We need peace. Freeze. Stop’.”
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