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President Donald Trump’s enactment volition soon bring an extremity to the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz vowed, assuring that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would motion the deal.
"Under Trump, this warfare volition end. And it volition extremity soon," Waltz said astatine the Conservative Political Action Conference adjacent the nation's superior connected Friday. "He is the president of peace."
Waltz defended the Trump administration’s determination to travel to the negotiating array with Russia during meetings successful Saudi Arabia connected Tuesday, echoing Thursday's sentiments from Vice President JD Vance.
"You can’t extremity a warfare unless you speech to some sides, and that’s what we’re doing," Waltz said.
TRUMP'S FRUSTRATIONS WITH ZELENKSYY ESCALATE AS US TURNS UP PRESSURE ON UKRAINE TO REACH PEACE DEAL
Waltz besides said that the U.S. was coordinating with Ukraine, Russia and different European allies to find everyone’s needs successful bid to unafraid a bid deal.
On Thursday, Waltz told reporters astatine the White House that Trump’s vexation with Zelenskyy was increasing, and that Wednesday's discussions betwixt U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg and Ukrainian officials were focused connected helping Ukraine to "understand" the warfare indispensable end.
"It surely isn't successful Russia's involvement oregon successful the American people's involvement for this warfare to grind connected everlastingly and ever and ever," Waltz said connected Thursday. "So a cardinal portion of his speech was helping President Zelenskyy recognize this warfare needs to travel to an end."
The accrued unit connected Ukraine to hold to a woody comes connected the heels of respective tense days betwixt Trump and Zelenskyy, arsenic each hurled insults backmost and distant toward 1 different aft meetings betwixt U.S. and Russian officials.
Ukraine was absent from the meetings, and Zelenskyy told reporters successful Turkey that "nobody decides thing down our back," aft stressing successful caller days that Kyiv would not hold to a bid dialog without Ukraine’s input.
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While Zelenskyy accused Trump of perpetuating Russian "disinformation" connected Wednesday, Trump took a jab backmost and labeled Zelenskyy a "dictator" who has failed his state and suggested Ukraine initiated the war. Russia invaded Ukraine successful February 2022.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Waltz met successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, connected Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin’s overseas affairs advisor, Yuri Ushakov, to hash retired ways to extremity the conflict.
U.S. officials besides person met with Ukrainian officials astir a bid deal, and Kellogg said Wednesday successful a station connected X that the U.S. remains committed to ending the warfare and uncovering ways to found "sustainable peace."
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