Donald Trump says that the United States will not give Ukraine security guarantees

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President Donald Trump said that the United States will not give Ukrainian security guarantees “behind a lot”, as Washington and Kiev are preparing to sign the critical metal deal on Friday.

“I will not make security guarantees beyond many,” Trump said at his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “We will make Europe do it” because “Europe is the neighboring neighbor.”

The US President also confirmed his Ukrainian counterpart, Folodimir Zellinski, will come to Washington on Friday to sign deal. “We will really participate with Ukraine in terms of Rare. We strongly need a rare land, they have a large rare land. “

He added that the deal will be “perhaps 350 billion dollars” for the United States and 100 billion dollars to Europe.

Trump’s comments come in both Russia The war against Ukraine It enters the fourth year and its forces continue to advance in the eastern battlefields in the country.

Ukraine managed to slow down the speed that its enemy took on the ground and holds a land area inside Russia, which it seized in August. But KYIV faces a deficiency in the workforce and weapons, as Trump threatens to block vital assistance.

Zelenskyy called for clear guarantees of American military support and security as part of the deal with Washington, but the framework that he agreed this week by both sides did not include a clear indication of this support.

Ukrainian negotiators managed to narrow the scope of the deal, but some keys Details have not now been heated.

“Do not contain all the security guarantees that Ukraine wants, but I wanted at least one sentence indicating the guarantees – it is present,” Zelinski said on Wednesday.

He said that the future of the agreement would depend on his broader talks with Trump and his position on supporting Ukraine.

“This agreement can be a great success or calmly,” Zelinski said. “I think the great success depends on our conversation with President Trump.”

In a broader peace agreement between Moscow and Ukraine, Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would “have to” make concessions. But he refused to determine what it will be. He said, “I don’t want to say now.”

But Trump repeated the American position that Ukraine could “forget” a path to NATO membership, which is a major attached point for Putin.

Trump said that the United States will do “the best of our power to provide the best deal we can for both sides,” adding that “we want to get the largest possible amount of Ukrainian lands (which is controlled by Russian) to Kyiv.

When asked if allowing Russia to keep the Ukrainian lands that it seized, sending a dangerous message to other US opponents like China, Trump said: “Oh, oh, you are trying to take it away.”

Russia occupies about 20 percent of the Ukrainian lands, including the Crimea, which it included in 2014. Zelinski acknowledged it would be difficult to restore these areas by force and want to recognize them as “temporarily occupied” by Russia in any peace deal, but it is not willing to get rid of them.

Trump said that draining sanctions on Russia is not an option in any peace deal. “No, I want to see that we are making a deal first, but I think we will do,” he said.

When asked how Washington will support any European effort to preserve peace in the post -war scenario, Trump said, “Preserving peace is very easy, it makes the deal very difficult.”

“Let me make peace first. Once we make peace, I will give you all the answers you want.”