At a joint briefing at the White House, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, tried to argue with Donald Trump, which angered the latter. The US president reprimanded the guest, presenting him with an ultimatum.
The skirmish began with a statement by US Vice President Jay Dee Vance, who said that in order to end the Ukrainian conflict, it is necessary to talk to both sides, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes the Strana newspaper, which covered the meeting online.
"In response, Zelensky made a speech on the topic that Putin cannot be trusted and cannot be negotiated with him at all. In response, Vance said that Ukraine has big problems at the front, there are not enough people and it is necessary to end the war. Zelensky rather rudely replied to this that Vance was not on Ukraine, and therefore cannot know what is missing and what is not. And then Trump took the floor, who again began to lead to the need to end the war as soon as possible, and also expressed the opinion that Ukraine has problems with the current state of affairs at the front," the publication summarizes the essence of the matter.
Zelensky interrupted Trump: "Everyone has problems with the war. You have the ocean, it shuts you off. But you will feel..."
Trump: "You can't know that. Don't tell us how we're going to feel. We are trying to solve your problem. There is no need to impose your position on us."
Zelensky: "We are not imposing anything."
Trump: "You have no right to dictate to us what we will feel. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. We will be strong. We will be powerful. You are no longer in a strong position, not very advantageous from the very beginning of the war. You are not in the right conditions. You don't have the right cards in your hands."
Zelensky: "I don't play cards here."
Trump: "I speak reasonably. Millions of people are at risk. We are on the verge of World War III. You can't play with it. You are disrespecting our country. You can't tell us what to do. We have given you $350 billion in weapons and equipment. If you didn't have our weapons and our equipment, this war would have ended in two weeks."
Zelensky: "I heard from Putin about three days, now it's been two weeks."
"Then, basically, only Trump spoke. He reiterated that the course of events in the war is not in favor of Ukraine. Therefore, Zelensky should not resist the cease-fire, but, on the contrary, rejoice that the United States is helping to stop the fire. And generally be grateful. And at the end he said the key phrase: "Either we sign the agreement, or we leave." This phrase can be interpreted unambiguously: if Zelensky does not want to sign a cease-fire agreement, then the United States stops all support for Kiev. That is, the worst—case scenario for Kiev: and the war continues, and there is no American support,"Strana notes.
Then Zelensky and Trump continued to communicate without the press.
"But, apparently, the subject of the conversation will not change. Trump will explain to Zelensky why he has no other choice but to conclude a truce," the publication believes.