{"id":302476,"date":"2025-01-26T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302476"},"modified":"2025-01-28T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T07:30:27","slug":"trump-zelensky-passed-on-deal-decided-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302476","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Zelensky Passed on Deal, \u2018Decided To Fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Anzalone \u2013 Antiwar.com Jan 24, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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In April 2022, Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kiev to ensure that President Zelensky didn’t sign any peace deal with Russia. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

President Donald Trump put some blame<\/a> on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for choosing to fight Russia rather than make a deal. In April of 2022, Zelensky had nearly completed negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin when members of NATO pushed Kiev to fight rather than sign the agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn\u2019t have done that because we could have made a deal and it would have been a deal that would have been \u2014 it would have been a nothing deal,\u201d Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Trump may be referring to the negotiations that nearly ended the Russian invasion of Ukraine within the first two months. Under that deal, Russian forces would have withdrawn from Ukraine, including the Donbas, if Kiev would never join NATO and committed to some demilitarization.<\/p>\n

During the interview, Trump indicated that he would have taken that deal. \u201cI could have made that deal so easily. And Zelensky decided that I want to fight,\u201d he said. Trump went on to say his predecessor, Joe Biden, did a \u201chorrible job\u201d by allowing the war to start.<\/p>\n

Trump also placed some of the blame on Putin, noting \u201che shouldn\u2019t have\u201d invaded Ukraine several times.<\/p>\n

When Zelensky was close to signing the deal, then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Kiev where he pushed Zelensky to forgo diplomacy and attempt to drive the Russian forces from Ukraine. At the time, members of NATO promised to give Ukraine everything it needed to win the war.<\/p>\n

Trump says Zelensky now wants to negotiate an end to the war. \u201cZelensky \u2014 I will say this, he wants to settle now. He\u2019s had enough. He shouldn\u2019t have allowed this to happen, either,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

Putin has largely kept his demands consistent throughout the war; the Kremlin wants a US pledge that Ukraine never joins NATO, limits on what Western arms are sent to Kiev, and recognition of Ukrainian territory annexed by Moscow. At the start of the conflict, Russia had only annexed Crimea. Since then, Moscow has also held referendums and seized four additional Ukrainian oblasts.<\/p>\n

Trump refused to tell Hannity if he had spoken with Putin. He did say he wanted to bring the war to an end as quickly as possible, claiming millions were dying. \u201cIt\u2019s gotta end. These are human beings that are being slaughtered\u201d on the battlefield, he said.<\/p>\n

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Trump is misrepresenting what happened in April 2022 when Ukraine and Russia were close to a peace agreement. Then, on Washington\u2019s instructions, Boris Johnson flew into Kiev to make Zelensky an offer he couldn\u2019t refuse: \u2018fight on … or else’. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302476"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302511,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302476\/revisions\/302511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}