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EPAThe president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that French president Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, “have not done anything” to end the war in Ukraine, before his visits to the house Blanca next week.
Trump also said that the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, does not have “cards” in the peace negotiations, adding: “I do not think it is very important to be in meetings.”
Since the large -scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine in 2022, the United Kingdom, France and other allies have been supplying weapons to kyiv and another help.
On Monday, European leaders celebrated a crisis summit in Paris in Ukraine, one day before Russia’s conversations in the United States in Saudi Arabia, and in the midst of fears that Ukraine and Europe could be excluded from peace negotiations .
Despite his criticisms of Macron and Starmer, Trump in his interview with Fox News also praised European leaders. He said that Macron is a “friend”, and called Starmer “a very pleasant guy.”
Macron is expected to visit Washington DC on Monday, while Starmer is expected to visit the White House on Thursday.
Earl this week, Starmer said he is “Ready and willing” to put the United Kingdom troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee your safety as part of a peace agreement.
The BBC has contacted the prime minister’s office to comment.
While European leaders have ruled out negotiation with Russia, they have gathered regularly to discuss war in Ukraine.
From the invasion of Russia of Ukraine, the United States, the United Kingdom and the EU, along with countries, including Australia, Canada and Japan, have imposed more than 20,000 sanctions on Russia.
Many European nations have also signed agreements to support and provide help to Ukraine.
In January, Starmer signed a “historical” pact of 100 years, telling Zelensky: “We are with you not only today, for this year or next, but for 100 years, much after this terrible war has finished and Ukraine free and thriving once again. “
Meanwhile, Trump Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg said he had “extensive and positive” discussions with Zelensky during his meeting in kyiv on Thursday.
Kellogg praised Zelensky as a “brave leader”, just days after Trump referred to him as a “dictator.”
Zelensky has made telephone calls with several world leaders in recent days, who have expressed their commitment to ensure that Ukraine participates in peace conversations.
Trump, in his Fox interview on Friday, said that Russia and Ukraine would not want to begin peace conversations without their own personal participation.
He also continued to criticize Zelensky, saying: “I have been seeing this man for years as his cities are demolished, as his people are killed, as their soldiers are decimated.
“I’ve been seeing it negotiate without letters. He has no letters and tired of them,” he continued. “You simply get tired of that and I have had it.”
And after criticizing Zelensky during the past week, using conversation points that analysts say they sound more as if they originated in Moscow than in Washington DC, Trump offered that “of course” would take a phone call from the president of Ukraine.
He insisted several times that Zelensky was to blame for not avoiding war, saying that Russia could have been “talk” to invade Ukraine.
When asked about the absence of Ukraine in peace conversations in Saudi Arabia this week, Trump said that Russia “was impossible to make an agreement with Zelensky.”
He said he believes that Russia sincerely wants an agreement to end the war, but that President Vladimir Putin “does not have to reach an agreement.”
The American vice president JD Vance later responded to the critics who said that Trump’s position on Russia was equivalent to “appeasement.”
“We are negotiating to put an end to the conflict. It is ‘appeasement’ only if you think that the Ukrainians have a credible path towards victory. They are not, so not,” he said in an X publication.
The United States is pressing Ukraine to sign an agreement that would give the rights of the United States to the deposits of rare land minerals of Ukraine, as part of the conversations to end the war.
Trump has designed this as a way for Ukraine to pay the United States for its previous military support. On Friday, he told journalists that the United States and Ukraine are “quite close” to sign the treatment, adding that the United States will “recover our money.”
He added that Zelensky and Putin must “meet” to finish the war.
Ukraine has submitted changes in the mineral agreement proposed by the United States, with the conversations that progress, according to reports.
White House Security Advisor Mike Waltz said Zelensky, “will sign that agreement.”
Zelensky previously rejected the proposal, saying that it is not “a serious conversation and that” it cannot sell our state. “
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior assistant from Zelensky, told BBC News on Friday that Ukraine is open to reach an agreement.
He said Ukraine wishes to cooperate with the United States, added that he is “prepared to open investments in global industries and the development of mineral fields.”
