Trump warns Zelenski: “Or reach an agreement or leave them alone”

The president of the United States, Donald Trump warned Friday to Volodimir Zelenski That Ukraine has to reach an agreement with the United States, or Washington will end its support for the country, invaded by Russia three years ago.

“Its people are very brave, but they reach an agreement or leave them alone, and if we leave them alone, they will fight”Trump said in the White House, during a verbal confrontation. “They will fight, but they don’t have the cards“In hand, he added.

Volodimir Zelenski and Donald Trump had an altercation today at the White House during a meeting in which they had to sign an agreement on Washington’s access to the mineral wealth of Ukraine and talk about an eventual peace agreement with Russia.

“You are not being grateful. It is not a pleasant”Trump said. “It will be very difficult“Negotiate like this, he added. Vice President JD Vance, who was also in the Oval Office, accused Zelenski to be “disrespectful”

President Trump also accused his Ukrainian counterpart from being “playing”With the lives of millions of people and with the third World War.

For his part, the Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenskisaid a Donald Trump That any European peace force deployed after a high fire agreement would need an American security support.

“This is crucial, this is what we want to talk about, this is very important “Zelenski said in the White House. The US president has been cautious when offering security guarantees.

Ukraine conditions

The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, said Friday at the White House that he will never accept a simple fire with Russia that does not include security guarantees because without these “It will never work”

During his appearance before the media with the US president, Donald Trump, in the Oval Office, Zelenski argued that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “has broken the fire 25 times” and pointed out that “when they talk about security guarantees, when Europeans are ready to send contingents, they will need the backrest of the United States”.

“We know that France and the United Kingdom already show their support, and we know that Europe is prepared, but without the US will not be prepared to have the strength we need”, Explained Zelenski, who stressed his interest in continuing to receive from Washington supplies in aerial defense matters, which he described as“The best in the world”

However, Trump avoided ensuring that Washington will provide the so -called military “support” that Europe claims for its future and hypothetical presence in Ukraine once a peace agreement is signed, nor did it confirm whether Kiev’s more arms support will be provided to kyiv, insisting that before talking about security, the first thing is to sign a treaty that ends hostilities.

During your speech Zelenski He wanted to remember kyiv’s desire to return to his country to Ukrainian children that the Russian army has kidnapped since the beginning of his invasion in 2022, and that his government figure in about 20,000.

“They already know that this crazy Russian (referring to Putin) sold 20,000 Ukrainian children. The names have changed them, they have changed their relatives. We want to bring them back”He said.

Mineral wealth agreement

Trump and Zelenski plan to sign this Friday an agreement for which Ukraine will share 50% of the income he obtains from the exploitation of their natural resources as a previous step to a peace pact with Russia, which raises kyiv’s suspicions.

kyiv has presented this commitment as a way to finance the reconstruction of the country after the war, while Trump has described it as a way of compensating the billions of dollars that the United States has already destined in military aid to Ukraine.

However, the Pact does not contemplate concrete security guarantees, something that Ukraine and its European allies have been claiming Washington to the risk of a new Russian attack, and leaves that to a future pact between the two countries.

The main objective of Zelenski on this visit is precisely to persuade Trump to provide some type of safety support against the threat of a new aggression by Russia.

With information from AFP and EFE