US President Donald Trump urged Ukraine to give up on hopes of regaining annexed Crimea or joining NATO, as he prepared to host President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders in Washington on Monday to urge Kyiv to accept a peace deal with Russia. After rolling out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Trump urged Ukraine to accept a deal to end Europe's deadliest war in 80 years, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions. Trump will meet first with Zelenskiy and then with the leaders of Britain, Germany, France, Italy,...
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that he "knows exactly" what he's doing regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict, while criticizing those who question his approach. In a post on Truth Social, Trump asserted he had "settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster," and said that the the ongoing war as "Sleepy Joe Biden's war, not mine," adding that he was "only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further." He again insisted the conflict "would have NEVER happened" during his administration. The president dismissed critics, particularly mentioning the Wall...
United States (US) President Donald Trump announced an ongoing desire to resolve the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday. This marks the second joint press conference between Trump and another head of state involved in the Ukrainian invasion, following Friday's joint presser with Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump's soft rhetoric on hopefully, maybe finding some semblance of a peace deal marks a sharp about-face from the language Trump used just before he met with Putin late last week....