Ukraine’s Commitment to Peace<\/p>\n
Jan 15 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine is not an obstacle to peace, pushing back against comments made a day earlier by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Response to Trump’s Remarks<\/p>\n
“We also talked about diplomatic work with America \u2013 Ukraine has never been and will never be an obstacle to peace,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address, referring to a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Ongoing Attacks<\/p>\n
Trump, interviewed by Reuters on Wednesday, said he believed Ukraine was less ready than Russia to clinch a deal. Asked why U.S.-led negotiations had not yet resolved the nearly four-year-old war, Trump responded: “Zelenskiy.” <\/p>\n
Future Diplomatic Efforts<\/p>\n
In his comments, Zelenskiy said Russia’s continued attacks on Ukrainian energy sites and other targets demonstrated that Moscow did not want peace.<\/p>\n
“It is precisely Russian missiles, Russian ‘Shaheds,’ (drones) and Russia’s attempt to destroy Ukraine that are clear evidence that Russia is not interested in agreements at all,” he said.<\/p>\n
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia agreed with Trump that Zelenskiy was holding up a deal, saying President Vladimir Putin and the Russian side remain open to talks.<\/p>\n
Zelenskiy pledged that Ukraine would pursue diplomatic efforts more actively.<\/p>\n
Trump told Reuters on Wednesday that he believed Putin was “ready to make a deal. I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal.”<\/p>\n
Trump and Zelenskiy have had an up-and-down relationship in dealing with efforts to resolve Europe’s largest land conflict since World War Two.<\/p>\n
Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance became engaged in a shouting match with Zelenskiy in the Oval Office in February 2025, suggesting the Ukrainian leader was not showing gratitude for U.S. assistance.<\/p>\n
Their interactions appeared to improve in subsequent meetings.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Yuliia Dysa, Editing by Franklin Paul and Lisa Shumaker)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine’s Commitment to Peace Jan 15 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine is not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[210372,210374,2000,299,123608,22712,210371,210370,210373,657,210369],"class_list":{"0":"post-698506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-diplomatic-efforts","9":"tag-energy-sites","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-nato-secretary-general","13":"tag-peace-talks","14":"tag-russia-attacks","15":"tag-trump-remarks","16":"tag-u-s-negotiations","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-zelenskiy-response"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115901289163163000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698506","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=698506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}