The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has taken aim at the US President saying that no one should be putting pressure on Ukraine to make “territorial concessions.”
It has been reported that Donald Trump has pressured Volodymyr Zelensky to give up Ukrainian territory to end the war.
Trump told Fox Business that Vladimir Putin “is going to take something” during any peace agreement, he added “he’s won certain property.”
It has been further reported that the meeting between Zelensky and Trump turned into a “shouting match” and the US President has said he will not send Kyiv the long-range high precision Tomahawk missiles, Reuters reports.
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Trump has called for a ceasefire on the front, and a source told Reuters that President Zelensky said he will not give up any territory for Russia.
A source said, “The meeting ended with (Trump’s) decision to make a ‘deal where we are, on the demarcation line.”
Trump said on Air Force One, “We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are, the battle lines.
The rest is very tough to negotiate if you’re going to say, ‘you take this, we take that’.”
Trump was asked by Reuters if he told Zelensky to give up territory, he said no, adding, “Let it be cut the way it is. It’s cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia.”
“You leave it the way it is right now. They can…negotiate something later on down the line,” he said.
The FT reported that Trump’s language was colourful as he was “cursing all the time” during the meeting which became a “shouting match” at times.
The Polish Prime Minister said, “None of us should exert pressure on Zelenskyy on the issue of territorial concessions.
“Everybody should pressure Russia to cease aggression. Concessions have never been the path to just and lasting peace.”
Putin has been demanding that Ukraine surrenders the Donbas region, but Kyiv will rightly not agree as it is one of the main access points to the Ukrainian capital.
