Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to be forced to make peace after his fiery shouting match with President Trump at the White House, Russia said Monday.
THE NEW YORK POST | Published March 3, 2025
The Kremlin claimed Monday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s fiery shouting match with President Trump at the White House proves that he will have to be forced into a peace deal.
“What happened at the White House on Friday, of course, demonstrated how difficult it will be to reach a settlement trajectory around Ukraine,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“The Kyiv regime and Zelensky do not want peace. They want the war to continue.
“It is very important that someone forces Zelensky himself to change his position,” he added.
“Someone has to make Zelensky want peace. If the Europeans can do it, they should be honored and praised.”
Russia’s remarks come just days after Trump and Vice President JD Vance clashed with the Ukrainian leader in the Oval Office when the president accused Zelensky of disrespecting the US and saying he risked triggering World War Three.
Zelensky, for his part, said on Sunday that he believed he could salvage his relationship with Trump and was still “ready” to sign a US-Ukraine minerals deal — but Ukraine wouldn’t concede any territory to Russia as part of a peace deal.
Trump, meanwhile, urged people to stop focusing on Putin and worry more about illegal migrants coming into the US.
“We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country — So that we don’t end up like Europe!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday.
In the wake of the Oval Office clash, European leaders leaped to Zelensky’s defense — with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying at a summit in London that they had agreed to draw up a Ukraine peace plan to present to the US.
The Kremlin said the summit was an attempt to continue the war and not to seek peace.
“We see that… a fragmentation of the collective West has begun,” Peskov said.
“There remains a group of countries that rather constitutes the party of war, which declares its readiness to further back Ukraine in terms of supporting the war and ensuring the continuation of hostilities.”
The Kremlin added that Russia would continue its dialog with Washington on bilateral ties and would press on with what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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Putin’s spokesman called Friday’s angry encounter between Trump and Zelensky “quite an unprecedented event,” blaming Zelensky, who he said “demonstrated a complete lack of diplomatic abilities.”
This pool photograph distributed by Russia’s state agency Sputnik shows Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov moderating Russian President Vladimir Putin’s year-end press conference at Gostiny Dvor exhibition hall in central Moscow on December 14, 2023. (Photo by Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP)
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KYIV POST | Published March 3, 2025
The Kremlin on Monday accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of not wanting peace, following a clash last week between the Ukrainian leader and US President Donald Trump.
“He doesn’t want peace. Someone should make him want peace. If the Europeans do it, all kudos to them,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
He described Friday’s angry public encounter between Trump and Zelensky as “quite an unprecedented event”.
He put the blame on Zelensky, who he said “demonstrated a complete lack of diplomatic abilities. To put it mildly.”
Peskov said President Vladimir Putin was aware of what happened, saying it proved Russia’s view of the conflict correct.
He suggested that European allies will also have to soothe Trump, saying “someone will have to make sizable efforts in dialogue with Washington in order to somehow cancel out the unpleasant residue that undoubtedly remains in the White House after talking to Zelensky”.
In this situation, “clearly the efforts of Washington alone and the readiness of Moscow will not be enough”, Peskov said.
The Kremlin commented after Ukraine’s European allies held crisis talks in London at the weekend and Zelensky said he would work with Europe to set terms for a possible peace deal.
The Kremlin spokesman described the situation as “complex”, saying that “the collective West has begun to partially lose its collective unity” on Ukraine.
“Although possible peace plans are being initially sketched out, it is not possible yet to say that there is a coherent peace plan.”
Russia is continuing its “special military operation” in Ukraine, “in order to achieve the aims that it had from the start,” Peskov said.
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SOURCE: www.kyivpost.com
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