A senior Democrat denounced Donald Trump on Sunday of “suspending the Russians.” Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkov said talks between the US and Russia over Ukraine were “the only way to end the massacre.”
In an interview on ABC News this week, Democratic Sen. Jack Reid, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, encountered Trump’s recent verbal attack on Ukrainian President Voldymee Zelenkitty, and was in line with Russia. has been enhanced.
“Essentially, this is President Trump surrendering to the Russians,” Reid said. “This is not a politician or a diplomat. It is someone who admires Putin, someone who doesn’t believe in the struggles of the Ukrainians and promises to be comfortable with the dictator.”
However, senior administration officials say Trump has relocated to U.S. policies on Ukraine, including a contract to repay US military and financial support with rare earth materials. sought secondary accusations of relocating policies. war.
Witkov, Trump’s envoy to Mid East, revealed this week that he had “went a lot of time with Putin” during his recent trip to Moscow, said, “talking, friendship, building relationships with him.” I refused to do so. In order to start a war in Ukraine, we call on NATO to join the “threat to the Russians.”
“War didn’t have to happen. It was provoked. That doesn’t necessarily mean it was caused by the Russians,” Witkov said Sunday in CNN’s Union status.
“At the time there were all sorts of conversations about Ukraine joining NATO,” he said. “It didn’t have to happen. It basically poses a threat to the Russians, so we have to deal with that fact.”
Witkov’s remarks were days after he held discussions with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz about reestablishing diplomatic relations and the Russian Ukraine peace agreement in Saudi Arabia. come.
Ukrainian officials said they were not invited to the meeting and would not accept the peace agreement that was later imposed on them. However, Ukraine’s position seemed to have changed after Trump called Zelensky a “no-election dictator,” then “moving fast or he won’t leave the country.”
On Sunday, Zelensky said Trump wanted to be a close partner in Ukraine, rather than a mediator between the two superpowers, the US and Russia.
“If you really need to give up on my post to achieve peace, I’m ready. I can exchange it for NATO (membership),” he said. “I’m not going to stay in power for decades,” he added. “But Putin will not maintain power over Ukrainian territory either.”
It came when President Putin appointed Russian sovereign wealth fund chief Kiril Dmitriev as envoy for international economic investment cooperation with Western countries “including the United States.” Dmitriev, considered to be the most US-savvy member of the Russian elite, was part of a Russian delegation who met his US counterpart in Riyadh.
Ukrainian NATO membership was excluded in all by US negotiators. Defense Secretary Pete Hegses confirmed on Fox News Sunday that the US military is not part of Ukraine’s future peacekeeping forces, and dodged issues relating to the responsibility of launching a bloody three-year conflict. .
“Are all finger pointing and pearl clutches likely to increase peace? That’s a permanent question the president is asking. He wants peace. If so, you’re the Russians and Someone who had to stare at Vladimir Putin and chose to negotiate about the difficulties and have a serious conversation,” Hegses told his former colleague, Shannon Breem.
“Stand here, “You’re good, you’re bad. You’re a dictator, you’re not a dictator. You invaded, you didn’t, it’s useless, it’s productive No. So President Trump is not drawn into it in unnecessary ways, and as a result, we are closer to peace than ever before,” added Heggs.
The White House continued to push back against allegations that Russia was contested on war. “President Trump’s peace effectively blocked Russia’s first diplomacy in his first term. If he had never taken office, this war would never have started,” White House reports. Director Caroline Leavitt said in an email to the Wall Street Journal.
Leavitt said Trump is “actively pushing both sides to end this brutal conflict for a full blow.”
