This is no longer about how to move past a bad meeting and sign an agreement. It’s about how much Zelensky and the people of Ukraine collectively must be punished on the altar of Trump’s ego and how much they must prostrate themselves at his feet in apology before he relents.
Trump is a marvelous useful idiot for Russia, assuming he isn’t actually a Kremlin asset.
I think that Trump continues the same US policy towards russia. And if Biden weakened russia, then Trump's task now is to establish control over it. And no one will take into account Ukraine's interests in this. As for the meeting, everything that happened there was a consequence, and not a cause.
Diplomacy in Ukraine is something very original. Ukraine's UK ambassador Valerii Zaluzhny at Chatham House in London said "Because we see, it's not just the axis of evil and russia trying to revise the world order – but the US is finally destroying this order."
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-putin-russia-moscow-live-sky-news-latest-12541713?postid=9225936#liveblog-bodyThe US is “destroying” the current world order, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has said, in unusually blunt comments that come just as Ukraine is trying to patch up ties with the US after the disastrous White House meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, writes CNN.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/06/europe/us-world-order-ukraine-zaluzhnyi-intl/index.htmlIn both cases it doesn't matter what happens or what you really think, what matters is what consequences it will have for your country. I don’t think anything will improve the already poor relations between the US and Ukraine.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview: Well, I think an important thing to understand about last Friday is not last Friday. It’s everything that led up to it. It’s been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted, stalemated conflict. And frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers – the United States, helping Ukraine, and russia – and it needs to come to an end. And no one has any idea or any plan to bring it to an end. The plan of the Ukrainians up to now and their allies on Capitol Hill and the people you talk to in other countries is let’s just keep giving them as much as they need for as long as it takes. That’s not a strategy.
https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-sean-hannity-of-fox-news/Ukraine’s troops dying because US cut aid, say soldiers on front line. Morale is ‘dangerously low’ on the battlefield and the fighting has become ferocious, warn combat medics.
Ukrainian soldiers are dying because of Donald Trump’s decision to end military aid to Ukraine, front-line troops have told The Telegraph. Soldiers revealed how they were feeling the pressure of dwindling American supplies and the looming summer months, when battles usually become more ferocious, and fear they have lost any initiative.
But their view on the war has become even more pessimistic following President Trump’s announcement on Wednesday that the US would cease to provide intelligence to Ukraine, leaving morale dangerously low.
“We are not the ones advancing over the last few months,” said combat medic Slava, 27, speaking from a village on the border between the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.
“It’s sad to say, but we don’t have initiative on the battlefield any more.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/05/ukraines-troops-dying-over-us-aid-cut-off-say-soldiers/Belgium has postponed the delivery of F16 fighter jets to Ukraine until 2026. However, spare parts may be provided as early as this year, Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever told reporters in Brussels.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/liveblog/koning-filip-ontvangt-president-zelensky-op-het-paleis-we-gaan~1741235439479/Europe's arms firms are ready and willing to step up to fill a defence gap left by U.S. President Donald Trump's pause on military aid for Ukraine, but getting there will take time and depend on how fast political pledges turn into contracts.
Europeans are racing to boost military spending, with European Union leaders set to discuss a proposal to mobilise up to 800 billion euros ($840 billion) at an emergency defence summit on Thursday.
The region's defence firms - which saw a major stock rally on Monday on prospects for more spending - are bullish that they can ramp up production.
But they warned delivery times could stretch into years and said expanding production would depend on governments backing their pledges with spending and fresh contracts.
"Does Europe have the necessary technology to produce the full spectrum of defence equipment that it needs? The answer is yes," Thales CEO Patrice Caine told reporters as the French firm's share hit a record high after forecast-beating earnings.
"It is more a question for buyers, governments and armies... When the contracts come we will be ready, but there is no point in being ready too far in advance."
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/thales-ceo-says-european-defence-capacity-tied-orders-2025-03-04/Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelensky, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.
The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelensky’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/People's Deputies Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko stated that they are not discussing the issue of the upcoming elections with their American partners, as Politico reported.
According to him, his team is working with American partners publicly and transparently and even suggested that the Ukrainian authorities coordinate these meetings. The purpose of such cooperation is, they say, to maintain bipartisan support.
Talks with US representatives in such cases concern the supply of weapons, intelligence, sanctions against russia, financial support, etc. At the same time, Poroshenko assures that his team is against elections during the war. Instead, they should take place only after a ceasefire and the signing of a peace agreement with security guarantees for Ukraine.
https://hromadske.ua/personaliyi/240924-poroshenko-poiasnyv-iaki-rozmovy-vede-z-administratsiyeiu-ssha-kaze-pro-vybory-ne-ydetsia?traffic_source=ukr.netOf course we will believe it.
The threat of a prolonged war in Ukraine without military backing from the United States is leading European Union politicians to contemplate the emergence of a fresh wave of huge numbers of refugees.
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-threats-prompt-eu-to-plan-for-fresh-ukraine-refugee-wave/
