Trump sent a "message" to Zelensky urging him to think about a ceasefire and abandoning the occupied territories - El Pais

US President-elect Donald Trump "sent a message" to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to start thinking about a ceasefire and abandoning all territories occupied by Russian troops, writes the publication El Pais, reports UNN.

Details

As El Pais writes, this week Trump addressed the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy from his golf club in Florida, calling on him to start thinking about a ceasefire and abandoning all occupied territories. "It's nice to say they want their land back, but the cities are mostly destroyed," he said. "You look at some of these cities, and there's not a single house left standing. So when you say 'return the country'... Return what? This is a 110-year reconstruction," he added.

However, several European sources, who wished to remain anonymous, believe that the signals sent by the Republican are not negative.

Trump promised to stop the war within 24 hours. He gave no hint as to how he would do this, but his public rhetoric was not encouraging, according to El Pais.

Reminder

Donald Trump after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris on December 7 and against the backdrop of the fall of Bashar Assad's regime in Syria, expressed Ukraine's desire to conclude an agreement to stop the war and called for an immediate ceasefire and the start of negotiations.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that no leader in the world has the right to negotiate the end of the war with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin without Ukraine.