Referring to Trump, Zelenskyy said: \u201cIt\u2019s all in his hands \u2026 How strong the sanctions package will be, depends on him. The speed with which decisions are made depends on him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since Trump returned to the White House, he has shown little interest in pressuring Putin, but instead has squabbled with Zelenskyy, culminating in the infamous Oval Office blow-up in late February. <\/p>\n
Asked about the incident, Zelenskyy said wryly: \u201cI don\u2019t think it brought us any closer.\u201d He added: \u201cBut that was in the past. And today we must do everything we can to ensure that the next meeting in the Oval Office is successful for both countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
The U.S. and Ukraine have resumed \u201cconstructive\u201d dialogue, including a one-on-one conversation between the presidents<\/a> at the Vatican in April, which was \u201cfriendly,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n With peace negotiations in Istanbul yielding few results and Russia continuing its barrage of Ukraine, Trump signaled frustration with Putin<\/a> and expressed doubts about Moscow\u2019s willingness to make peace. But after talking with Putin on the phone last week, Trump compared Ukraine and Russia to two squabbling children and claimed<\/a> the deadline for imposing more sanctions on Moscow is \u201cin his brain.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he thinks Trump changes his mind every day depending on whom he has spoken with on the phone, Zelenskyy replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referring to Trump, Zelenskyy said: \u201cIt\u2019s all in his hands \u2026 How strong the sanctions package will be,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[1213,32,809,332,2663,657,49,19276,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-177262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-negotiations","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-sanctions","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-vatican","16":"tag-vladimir-putin","17":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","18":"tag-war","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114668077324815603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}