President Donald Trump greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. (AP Photo)
US President Donald Trump has said that he is “a little disappointed” with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he claimed that the latter “isn’t ready” to sign off a US-backed peace proposal which aims to end the nearly four years old war in Kyiv, while Trump suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “accepted” the proposal, AP reported.
During an interaction with reporters before taking part in the Kennedy Center Honors, Trump was critical of Zelenskyy as the three days of talks between US and Ukrainian negotiators in Miami with an aim to narrow down the differences in the US peace proposal ended on Saturday without any concrete decision. President Trump suggested that the Ukrainian president was holding up the talks from moving forward.
“I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelenskyy hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago. His people love it, but he hasn’t,” Trump claimed, while adding, “Russia is, I believe, fine with it, but I’m not sure that Zelenskyy’s fine with it. His people love it. But he isn’t ready.”
.@POTUS: "I have to say that I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the [peace] proposal." pic.twitter.com/IYvbjCXcJF
However, Putin has not expressed any form of approval to Trump administration’s 28-point peace plan and instead last week suggested that certain aspects of the US peace proposal were unworkable, even though the original draft toed the line of Kremlin. Trump has repeatedly stated that Ukrainians should cede land to Russia in order to bring an end to the nearly four years old war.
Earlier, Zelenskyy said he had a “substantive phone call” with US and Ukrainian officials engaged in the talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida. “Ukraine is determined to keep working in good faith with the American side to genuinely achieve peace,” Zelenskyy said.
This comes as Russia on Sunday welcomed the Trump administration’s new national security strategy in comments by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. “There are statements there against confrontation and in favor of dialogue and building good relations,” Peskov said.
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President Donald Trump greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. (AP Photo) 
