{"id":398886,"date":"2025-09-05T03:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398886\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:05:11","slug":"zelensky-describes-being-forced-after-trump-call-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398886\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky describes being &#8216;forced&#8217; after Trump call | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his gratitude to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2104623\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> for engaging in a &#8220;long and detailed&#8221; discussion with him and other European leaders on <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2101903\/trump-privately-fuming-putins-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potential solutions to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A long and very detailed conversation with President Trump,&#8221; <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2102648\/ukraine-s-volodymyr-zelenskyy-issues-statement-after-top-politician-assassinated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zelensky posted on Twitter<\/a> on Thursday. &#8220;We spoke after today&#8217;s meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris. European leaders also participated on the call.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First and foremost, we talked about how to push the situation toward real peace,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We discussed different options, and the most important is pressure, using strong measures, particularly economic ones, to force an end to the war. The news comes as <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2104173\/russia-ww3-threat-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia sends horror WW3 threat to UK &#8211; &#8216;drown Britain with nukes!&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until peace comes, Ukrainians must not be at the mercy of constant Russian attacks,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Russian missiles and drones must not take lives. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> has proposed a format for protecting our skies for the U.S. to consider. I thank President Trump for supporting our people. We agreed on further contacts.&#8221;, reports the Express US.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>&#8216;s Zelensky hits back as Trump admits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> war &#8216;more difficult&#8217; than expected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Zelensky&#8217;s explosive tweet emerged following the high-stakes coalition meeting, which kicked off around 8:00 a.m. EST on Thursday. The Ukrainian leader&#8217;s remarks come as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2104623\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who has been desperately working to broker a peace deal, made a stunning admission that perhaps the brutal conflict was &#8220;a little more difficult&#8221; to end than he initially believed.<\/p>\n<p>In a candid interview with CBS, Trump said &#8220;Frankly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> one, I thought, would have been on the easier side of the ones I&#8217;ve stopped,&#8221; he confessed. &#8220;But it seems to be something that&#8217;s a little bit more difficult than some of the others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since storming back into the Oval Office in January, Trump has desperately attempted to position himself as a global peacemaker and repeatedly boasted that he has ended several conflicts. Despite these bold claims, the president has yet to reveal exactly which wars he participated in resolving.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s controversial approach, as he describes it, involves gathering world leaders in one room and aggressively pushing them toward a breakthrough agreement. The president also conceded that the explosive situation between Moscow and Kyiv required additional patience from all parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky has repeatedly expressed fierce determination and willingness to meet with Putin directly while simultaneously urging the U.S. to impose crushing measures to force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> back to the negotiation table. On Wednesday, Putin allegedly told reporters that he has not ruled out a dramatic meeting with Zelensky and added that he would do it if it were conducted properly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Putin&#8217;s possible peace offering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Russian strongman made these provocative remarks during a tense press conference in Beijing on Wednesday, suggesting that if rational thinking prevailed, it would be possible to reach an &#8220;acceptable solution&#8221; for concluding the devastating conflict. Putin, whose military has recently made a chilling nuclear move, declared ominously, &#8220;It seems to me that there is a certain light at the end of the tunnel. Let&#8217;s see how the situation develops. If not, then we will have to achieve our goal by military means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky had not issued a public response to Putin&#8217;s inflammatory comments. He did indicate earlier that the overnight strikes were &#8220;demonstrative&#8221; in nature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Putin is demonstrating his impunity. Only due to the lack of sufficient pressure, primarily on the war economy, does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> continue this aggression,&#8221; he wrote defiantly on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his gratitude to President Donald Trump for engaging in a &#8220;long and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,13,12,21158,7661,14,1757,17961,658,21151],"class_list":{"0":"post-398886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-peace-talks","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-trump","15":"tag-ukraine-conflict","16":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","17":"tag-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149479807227480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398886","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=398886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}