{"id":370628,"date":"2025-08-24T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370628\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:55:35","slug":"trump-says-ill-see-whose-fault-it-is-if-putin-zelenskyy-meeting-not-set-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370628\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says \u2018I\u2019ll see whose fault it is\u2019 if Putin-Zelenskyy meeting not set – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> said Friday he\u2019ll \u201csee whose fault it is\u201d if Russia<\/a> doesn\u2019t come to the table for direct peace negotiations with Ukraine<\/a> in the coming days, as doubts grow over whether a high-level meeting will take place.<\/p>\n

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The White House said this week<\/a> that Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> had agreed to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy within the next two weeks after a call with Trump, which came after Trump and Zelenskyy met with European leaders at the White House on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet Russia\u2019s top diplomat said Friday no plans are in place for such a meeting, despite Trump saying he had begun arrangements for one as he seeks to end the three-and-a-half-year war.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that in two weeks he\u2019ll \u201cknow the attitude of Russia, and frankly of Ukraine,\u201d whether they\u2019re ready to make peace, but was non-committal of whether there will be consequences if a meeting doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very important decision, and that\u2019s whether or not it\u2019s massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both,\u201d he said, without specifying which country he would punish. \u201cOr we do nothing and say, \u2018It\u2019s your fight.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if that means there\u2019s a possibility he\u2019ll do nothing when the two-week deadline passes, Trump replied: \u201cI\u2019ll see whose fault it is. If there\u2019s reasons why, I\u2019ll understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know exactly what I\u2019m doing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Russia started the current war in 2022 with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and continues to bombard the country with missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously threatened to impose sanctions on Russia if it did not meet previous deadlines to begin negotiations, only to not follow through. A bipartisan package of additional Russian sanctions has languished in the U.S. Senate waiting for Trump\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n

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Trump also abandoned his demands for an immediate ceasefire after meeting with Putin in Alaska last Friday.<\/a> That summit sparked a flurry of meetings at the White House on Monday with Zelenskyy and European allies, which culminated with Trump calling Putin and pushing for a meeting with Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

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Asked by reporters Tuesday if Putin has agreed to hold that sit-down within the next two weeks, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied: \u201cHe has.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet in a taped interview with NBC\u2019s Meet the Press that\u2019s set to air Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said \u201cthere is no meeting planned\u201d between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine wants Western security guarantees to deter any post-war Russian attack, and U.S. and European officials are scrambling to come up with detailed proposals on how that might work.<\/p>\n

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But Lavrov said earlier this week that making security arrangements for Ukraine without Moscow\u2019s involvement was pointless and \u201ca road to nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that Canada is part of the discussions as a member of the so-called \u201ccoalition of the willing,\u201d and could play \u201can important role\u201d in ensuring Ukraine\u2019s security.<\/p>\n

That means not just a \u201crobust\u201d Ukrainian military but also \u201csecurity on the land, in the air and in the sea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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