Putin REJECTS Ceasefire As Trump Meets Zelensky

 

 

Dec 29, 2025

Putin REJECTS Ceasefire As Trump Meets Zelensky 

 

Donald Trump and Zelensky have met in Florida and have discussed the peace plan. Both leaders have held a press conference in which they’ve addressed the territorial issues, referendum in Ukraine and the situation with Russia. 

 

President Trump has spoken over the phone with President Putin ahead of his meeting with Zelensky and will speak to the Russian leader again over the coming days. 

 

Donald Trump has also called the European leaders. 

 

Omid Nouripour, Vice President of Germany's Bundestag has called for Friedrich Merz to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles. 

 

Yuri Ushakov has stated that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed to keep the negotiations according to the framework established in Alaska.

 

 

Trump: Putin has not agreed to ceasefire during referendum in Ukraine

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — 29 December, 01:24

Trump and Zelenskyy at a press conference on 28 December. Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine

US President Donald Trump has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has not agreed to a ceasefire during a possible referendum in Ukraine on a proposed "peace plan".

Source: Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a press conference following their meeting

Trump is unpopular in Europe — even among right-wing populist supporters, POLITICO Poll shows

The U.S. president gets favorable views from only about a third of people who support the parties Trump wants to see win power in France and Germany.

In France and Germany, only about a third of people who said they had supported right-wing parties reported seeing Trump in a favorable light. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

December 29, 2025 4:00 am CET

By Hanne Cokelaere

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to grow Europe’s right-wing populist movement but he might have a harder time than he expects winning over European voters.

The MAGA leader is unpopular in Europe, even among the supporters of right-wing populist parties he sees as allies, according to the new POLITICO Poll in partnership with Public First, which surveyed more than 10,000 people across five countries earlier this month. His biggest fans are in Britain, where 50 percent of Reform-aligned respondents had favorable views of Trump. However, in France and Germany, only about a third of people who said they had supported right-wing parties reported seeing Trump in a favorable light