{"id":348107,"date":"2025-08-16T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348107\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:53:09","slug":"czech-minister-slams-putins-nonsense-ukraine-remarks-in-trump-briefing-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348107\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech minister slams Putin\u2019s \u2018nonsense\u2019 Ukraine remarks in Trump briefing \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin, who addressed reporters first, pontificated about how Ukraine poses \u201cfundamental threats\u201d to Russian security, and discussed the need to \u201celiminate all the primary causes of the conflict.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has long pointed to a list of \u201croot causes\u201d of the war, including preventing Ukraine\u2019s NATO membership and false claims that Nazis are running the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in his remarks, said the talks were \u201cextremely productive,\u201d though he admitted \u201cwe didn\u2019t get there\u201d on a Ukraine deal with his Russian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Lipavsk\u00fd withheld criticism from the U.S. president, whom he praised for his attempts to halt the conflict and his efforts to \u201ccontinuously\u201d discuss the process with European leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome that President Trump is trying to stop the war,\u201d the Czech minister wrote, adding that he expects Trump to \u201cinform us in Europe about the outcomes of today\u2019s negotiations, including President Zelenskyy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1956418709783753153\" target=\"_blank\">continued its attacks on Ukraine<\/a> in the hours leading up to the Alaska talks, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Putin were serious about negotiating peace, he would not have been attacking Ukraine all day today,\u201d Lipavsk\u00fd said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putin, who addressed reporters first, pontificated about how Ukraine poses \u201cfundamental threats\u201d to Russian security, and discussed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[6178,32,2000,299,660,809,332,811,657,49,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-348107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-kremlin","13":"tag-negotiations","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-security","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115036187309523949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348107","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=348107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}