Zelenskyy said that Trump had conveyed his interest in accepting the invitation but had not set a date.. For several months now, Zelenskyy has extended a public invitation to Trump to come to Ukraine and make good on his boast that he could help end the war.
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In the interview, Zelenskyy revealed that his courtship of Trump had been even more determined in private.
Donald Trump plans to 'green light' Putin's advances in Ukraine and could cut funding altogether, says former head of CIA John Brennan as Zelensky invites the former President to visit Kyiv
- Zelensky told Politico that Trump is interested in the idea but that he isn't sure when he could make the visit
"Former CIA director John Brennan has warned that if Donald Trump is elected again in November, he cut severely cut military aid funding to Ukraine which would serve as a 'green light' for Putin's expansion plans throughout Europe.
'If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,' Zelensky said.
'We said that we would like Donald Trump to come to Ukraine, see everything with his own eyes and draw his own conclusions. In any case, I am ready to meet him and discuss the issue.'. . ."
- Those comments, made in an interview with Belgian TV, comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells Politico that he has publicly and non-publicly invited Trump to come and visit the front lines of the war.
'If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,' Zelensky said.
'We said that we would like Donald Trump to come to Ukraine, see everything with his own eyes and draw his own conclusions. In any case, I am ready to meet him and discuss the issue.'. . ."
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Zelenskyy warns Russia has penetrated US politics, invites Trump to Ukraine
In an exclusive interview, the president of Ukraine talks about his outreach to Trump, stalled Ukraine aid and Russia’s growing influence in the U.S.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine warned in an interview that Russian influence had pierced the American political system and rejected the idea, backed by allies of Donald Trump, that Ukraine could swiftly end the war just by making massive territorial concessions.
But Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he had privately urged Trump through intermediaries to travel to Ukraine and that Trump had expressed interest but had not yet committed to making a trip. Zelenskyy said he was open to hearing Trump’s proposals for the war, while making clear he was highly skeptical.
- “If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with Axel Springer media outlets. POLITICO is owned by Axel Springer.
- Zelenskyy continued: “I need very strong arguments. I don’t need a fantastic idea, I need a real idea, because people’s lives are at stake.”
Any deal that merely gave up land to Russian President Vladimir Putin in exchange for an end to hostilities, Zelenskyy said, would just open the way for more Russian wars of conquest in the future. A negotiated peace, he said, had to leave the Russian despot “no room to carry out his plans.”
In the interview, Zelenskyy swerved at times between expressing impatience with Western allies that have not delivered military aid readily enough — he faulted Germany most explicitly — and admitting that Ukraine is under considerable pressure to show new progress in the war. The interview was conducted in a combination of English and Ukrainian, partially using translators.
Trump has been a consistent skeptic of the war effort and a critic of Zelenskyy, and he recently said he would encourage Russia to act with impunity against members of the NATO alliance who do not spend large sums of money on defense. President Joe Biden has attacked Trump in the campaign as a threat to world stability and a stooge of Putin and other foreign dictators.
Russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, had succeeded in warping “the information field of the world.” Without naming names, he claimed that American citizens were effectively doing Russia’s work within the U.S. media. | Giorgos Moutafis for POLITICO
Zelenskyy’s textured approach to Trump represents the latest effort by a major world leader to calibrate his handling of the former American president who is now the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for the 2024 election. While disagreeing with Trump emphatically on war policy, Zelenskyy spoke respectfully about Trump as a leader with whom he is eager to build a constructive partnership.
Russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, had succeeded in warping “the information field of the world.” Without naming names, he claimed that American citizens were effectively doing Russia’s work within the U.S. media. | Giorgos Moutafis for POLITICO
Zelenskyy’s textured approach to Trump represents the latest effort by a major world leader to calibrate his handling of the former American president who is now the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for the 2024 election. While disagreeing with Trump emphatically on war policy, Zelenskyy spoke respectfully about Trump as a leader with whom he is eager to build a constructive partnership.
- Those comments came a day after David Cameron, the British foreign secretary and former U.K. prime minister, met with Trump at his Florida estate, in part to plead the case for supporting Ukraine despite having denounced Trump in the past as a bigot.
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