Donald Trump will meet today with senior officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth, to assess and take several steps on Ukraine, including suspending or canceling military aid to Ukraine .
Also under scrutiny are the latest shipments of ammunition and equipment already authorized and paid for during the Joe Biden administration .
The news was reported by the New York Times, citing anonymous officials of the US administration.
The rare earths deal, however, is no longer on the table . This was stated by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in an interview with CBS News on the program “Face the Nation”.
“All President Zelensky had to do was come in and sign this economic agreement, and again show no divergence — no divergence — between the Ukrainian people and the American people, and he chose to blow it ,” Bessent said. The US Treasury Secretary stressed that it is “impossible to have an economic agreement without a peace agreement.”
Zelensky , for his part, speaking to reporters at London's Stansted Airport, said that to end the war with Russia "there is still a long way to go." He reiterated that any agreement would have to be "honest, fair and stable, with very specific security guarantees."
Concessions to Moscow? "Today there is no talk of it, it would be wrong. We will never recognize the occupied territories as Russian territory. For us, these will be temporary occupations."
The Ukrainian leader also reiterated that he was " ready to resign for Ukraine's accession to NATO" . Because "then it would mean that I have fulfilled my mission. However, I would run again ".
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to Zelensky's words: " The Ukrainian president does not want peace, someone must force him to want it , it is very important that someone forces him to change his position."
(Unioneonline/L)
