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Monday, March 3, 2025
Trump threatens to lose patience as Europeans float proposals for Ukraine ceasefire
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Britain says several proposals have been made for a truce in fighting between Ukraine and Russia, after France floated a plan for a one-month pause leading to peace talks, but US President Donald Trump suggests his patience is running out.
European countries, led by Britain and France, are rallying around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and trying to hatch a peace plan that includes Kyiv, after last week’s Oval Office rupture between Zelensky and Trump.
The US president has responded angrily to an AP report quoting Zelensky as saying the end of the war is “very, very far away.”
“This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelensky, and America will not put up with it for much longer!” Trump writes on Truth Social.
“It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelensky, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the US.”
Zelensky says a ceasefire must carry explicit security guarantees from the West to ensure that Russia, which invaded Ukraine three years ago and holds about 20 percent of its land, does not attack again. Trump has refused to give any such guarantees.
The Times of Israel Community.