Trump demands “an immediate ceasefire” in Ukraine after his meeting with Zelensky and the fall of Assad
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, has sent a message through his social networks in which he links the fall of Bashar al-Assad with the war in Ukraine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Trump, who hours before had met in Paris, where he attended the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame, with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and that of France, Emanuel Macron, takes the opportunity in his message to demand a “ceasefire.” immediately” in Ukraine.
Trump indicates that Assad has fallen because Russia was no longer interested in protecting him because of casualties in the Ukraine war which, he says, “should never have started, and could last forever.” “Russia and Iran are in a state of weakness right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its success in fighting. Likewise, Zelensky and Ukraine would like to reach an agreement and stop the madness. They have lost a ridiculous 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians. There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations to begin. Too many lives are being wasted unnecessarily, too many families destroyed, and if this continues, it can turn into something much bigger, and much worse. I know Vladimir well. This is your time to act. China can help. The world is waiting,” he wrote on his social network Truth.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to end the Ukraine war within a day, or even before taking office if he won the election. Many fear that this promise will involve forcing kyiv to accept concessions to Russia under threat of being left without military assistance that many Republicans openly question.
After the meeting with Trump and Macron, in statements to journalists, Zelensky insisted that any peace agreement “must be fair” for the Ukrainians, “so that Russia and Putin or any other aggressor do not have the opportunity to return.”
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