Russian invasion Negotiations

Reports of chaotic meeting downplayed: “No disaster”

Several Republicans are downplaying this weekend’s reports that the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky went very badly for the Ukrainian side. “Experts with direct insight” into the negotiations deny, for example, that Trump swore and threw cards, reports Politico.

According to the reports, Zelensky had been urged to cancel the visit. The timing was considered bad as the White House is trying to deal with the budget crisis at home and the peace agreement in Gaza.

– The meeting was a disappointment for the Ukrainians rather than a disaster.

A European source also believes that the reports, published by the Financial Times, gave a bleaker picture than was actually the case.

Source: European concern grows after the conversation with Putin

There is concern among European countries that the negotiations on a possible peace in Ukraine are going in the wrong direction. This is what a European source told the Washington Post, referring to Donald Trump, according to information in several media outlets, urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj to accept Putin's demand to give up the entire Donbas region.

Western countries believe that Trump's attitude changed after last week's phone call with the Russian president.

- Putin knew what he was doing and he reached out to Trump.

The information about how Friday's meeting between Trump and Zelenskyj went is mixed. The Financial Times reports that Trump allegedly swore and threw away maps of the war situation, while Politico's sources do not want to talk about any "catastrophe".