{"id":75307,"date":"2025-08-17T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75307\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:18:11","slug":"trump-tells-zelensky-that-putin-demands-more-control-of-ukraine-urges-kyiv-to-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75307\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Zelensky that Putin demands more control of Ukraine, urges Kyiv to make a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz following a virtual meeting to clarify the European position prior to the Alaska summit Friday.Omer Messinger\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> said on Saturday that Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because \u201cRussia is a very big power, and they\u2019re not\u201d, after a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land. After the two leaders met in Alaska on Friday, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Putin had offered to freeze most front lines if Kyiv ceded all of Donetsk, the industrial region that is one of Moscow\u2019s main targets, a source familiar with the matter said. <\/p>\n

Zelensky rejected the demand, the source said. Russia already controls a fifth of Ukraine, including about three-quarters of Donetsk province, which it first entered in 2014.<\/p>\n

Trump also said he agreed with Putin that a peace deal should be sought without the prior ceasefire that Ukraine and its European allies, until now with U.S. support, have demanded.<\/p>\n

Zelensky said he would meet Trump in Washington on Monday, while Kyiv\u2019s European allies welcomed Trump\u2019s efforts but vowed to back Ukraine and tighten sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n

Analysis: Despite Trump\u2019s impatience to broker a settlement in Russia-Ukraine War, Putin presents some obstacles to peace<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s meeting with Putin, the first U.S.-Russia summit since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, lasted just three hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up,\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

His various comments on the meeting mostly aligned with the public positions of Moscow, which says it wants a full settlement – not a pause – but that this will be complex because positions are \u201cdiametrically opposed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Russia has been gradually advancing for months. The war – the deadliest in Europe for 80 years – has killed or wounded well over a million people from both sides, including thousands of mostly Ukrainian civilians, according to analysts. Before the summit, Trump had said he would not be happy unless a ceasefire was agreed on. <\/p>\n

Ukrainian women give birth in bomb shelters as country faces plummeting population<\/a><\/p>\n

But afterwards he said that, after Monday\u2019s talks with Zelensky, \u201cif all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin\u201d. Those talks will evoke memories of a meeting in the White House Oval Office in February, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance gave Zelensky a brutal public dressing-down. Putin signalled no movement in Russia\u2019s long-held demands, which also include a veto on Kyiv\u2019s desired membership in the NATO alliance. <\/p>\n

He made no mention in public of meeting Zelensky, which the Ukrainian leader said he was willing to do. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said a three-way summit had not been discussed.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity, Trump signalled that he and Putin had discussed land transfers and security guarantees for Ukraine, and had \u201clargely agreed\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re pretty close to a deal,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cUkraine has to agree to it. Maybe they\u2019ll say \u2019no\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what he would advise Zelensky to do, Trump said: \u201cGotta make a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, Russia is a very big power, and they\u2019re not,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has consistently said he cannot concede territory without changes to Ukraine\u2019s constitution, and Kyiv sees Donetsk\u2019s \u201cfortress cities\u201d such as Sloviansk and Kramatorsk as a bulwark against Russian advances into even more regions.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has also insisted on security guarantees, to deter Russia from invading again. He said he and Trump had discussed \u201cpositive signals\u201d on the U.S. taking part, and that Ukraine needed a lasting peace, not \u201cjust another pause\u201d between Russian invasions. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> welcomed what he described as Trump\u2019s openness to providing security guarantees to Ukraine under a peace deal. He said security guarantees were \u201cessential to any just and lasting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin, who has opposed involving foreign ground forces, said he agreed with Trump that Ukraine\u2019s security must be \u201censured\u201d. \u201cI would like to hope that the understanding we have reached will allow us to get closer to that goal and open the way to peace in Ukraine,\u201d Putin told a briefing on Friday with Trump. For Putin, just sitting down with Trump represented a victory. He had been ostracized by Western leaders since the start of the war, and just a week earlier had faced a threat of new sanctions from Trump.<\/p>\n

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Trump listens as Putin\u00a0speaks during a news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson, Friday, in Anchorage, Alaska.Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Trump spoke to European leaders after returning to Washington. Several stressed the need to keep pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said an end to the war was closer than ever, thanks to Trump, but added: \u201c… until (Putin) stops his barbaric assault, we will keep tightening the screws on his war machine with even more sanctions.\u201d A statement from European leaders said, \u201cUkraine must have ironclad security guarantees\u201d and no limits should be placed on its armed forces or right to seek NATO membership as Russia has sought. <\/p>\n

Some European politicians and commentators were scathing about the summit. \u201cPutin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, while Trump got nothing,\u201d Wolfgang Ischinger, former German ambassador to Washington, posted on X.<\/p>\n

Both Russia and Ukraine carried out overnight air attacks, a daily occurrence, while fighting raged on the front. Trump told Fox he would postpone imposing tariffs on China for buying Russian oil, but he might have to \u201cthink about it\u201d in two or three weeks.<\/p>\n

He ended his remarks after the summit by telling Putin: \u201cWe\u2019ll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNext time in Moscow,\u201d a smiling Putin responded in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-75307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}