"Russia is behaving well on the Ukraine issue" – Trump attacks Zelenskyy again
He is also not against holding a trilateral summit with Putin and Xi Jinping.
"Russia is behaving well on the Ukraine issue" – Trump attacks Zelenskyy again
US President Donald Trump has once again harshly criticized Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accusing him of not wanting to end the war with Russia. He also approved the idea of holding a trilateral meeting involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. These new statements by Trump came at a time when relations between the US and Ukraine have cooled sharply.
On Monday, journalists asked Trump to react to Zelenskyy's statement that if the American government supports Russia in the war against Ukraine, it would be "on the wrong side of history."
"Zelenskyy said that? Zelenskyy doesn't know what he's talking about. Zelenskyy is a person who should have settled the war long ago. If he had listened to me, he would have gotten a much better deal a long time ago," Trump responded.
He added that "it's time for someone else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine." "If he had listened to me – you remember what happened in the Oval Office – he would have already settled everything. Maybe it's time for Zelenskyy to find another person to conduct negotiations," Trump said.
In February 2025, a heated argument occurred during a meeting between the US president and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House.
At that time, Trump's main demand to the Ukrainian president was an immediate ceasefire. Zelenskyy initially said that Kyiv needed effective security guarantees for this, but shortly after the incident at the White House, the Ukrainian government indicated its readiness for a ceasefire. However, Russia rejected the proposal.
Trump was also asked about the observed disruptions in providing intelligence data to Ukraine.
Last week, Zelenskyy said that the US had not warned Kyiv about Russian missile strikes in a timely manner. On Sunday, in an interview with NBC, he stated that intelligence sharing had been restored, but on Monday, Ukraine complained again that it had not received full information about Kyiv being shelled with ballistic missiles.
"Yes, we are providing intelligence," Trump said regarding this. "We give a lot of things to Ukraine. And you know what? We give Ukraine a lot of things, and they give us nothing."