All posts tagged "Volodomyr Zelensky"

Former NATO commander James Stavridis claimed Russia's devastating attack on Kyiv was a "message" to President Donald Trump, who claimed on Thursday he was putting pressure on Vladimir Putin.

At an Oval Office news conference with Norway's prime minister, Trump said his U.S.-brokered peace deal would give Crimea and 20 percent of Ukraine over to Russia, but said he was stopping Putin from "taking the whole country" as a concession.

At least 12 people were killed and 90 were injured early Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks on Ukraine's capital in nearly a year, according to The New York Times. Trump put out a TruthSocial post shortly afterward saying, "Vladimir, STOP!” and calling the strikes, “Not necessary, and very bad timing." ...

CNN's Dana Bash was flabbergasted after watching President Donald Trump berate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office Friday.

"Wow. Just, wow. That was...that was something," Bash began before remarking on Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour's reaction.

"Look at her face," Bash said of Amanpour. "I mean, Christiane, hold, hold that thought for one, okay. Actually, Christiane, please take it away," Bash added....

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting with Donald Trump at the White House Friday where the U.S. president is expected to claim victory for a rare minerals deal that will serve as "payback" for U.S. assistance to the war-torn nation. Trump has long sought to be reimbursed for providing Ukraine with weapons needed to push back the Russians, even thought the heads of state for Great Britain and France tried to explain this week that that's not how it's done.

In the Oval Office Thursday Trump asserted that European nations will "get their money back" from what they put into Ukraine's war effort, but Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted that wasn't true: "Quite a bit of ours was gifted. It was given," Starmer said.

Earlier in the week, French President Emanuel Macron also corrected Trump's claims of payback: "To be frank," Macron said, "we paid 60% of the total effort...through guaranteed grants."...

A second head of state has set President Donald Trump straight for claiming Europe "gets their money back" from Ukraine.

First, it was French President Emanuel Macron who interrupted Trump earlier this week.

"Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back," Trump said with Macron in the Oval Office....

In trying to make sense of President Donald Trump's favor of Russia over Ukraine, New York Times opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman floated two possibilities.

Friedman called his introspection, "one of the most disturbing questions I've ever had to ask about my own country."

Option one: "Are we being led by a dupe for Vladimir Putin — by someone ready to swallow whole the Russian president’s warped view of who started the war in Ukraine and how it must end?"...