GuShiio.com ① The conflict between Trump and Zelensky escalated. Trump fiercely criticized Zelensky’s remarks predicting that peace between Russia and Ukraine would be remote.
② People familiar with the matter revealed that the Trump administration has stopped funding the supply of new weapons to Ukraine and is considering freezing the delivery of U.S. weapons stockpiles.
Cailian News, March 4 (Editor Huang Junzhi)After the “uproar” at the White House last week, the conflict between U.S. President Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky escalated again. On Monday (3rd) Eastern Time, Trump once again slammed Zelensky’s latest remarks.The latter predicted that peace between Russia and Ukraine was still far away.
According to officials familiar with the matter,The United States has suspended arms shipments to Ukraine.
What happened?
Trump and Zelensky had a heated argument at the White House last week. On the same day, Zelensky left the White House early, the originally planned joint press conference was cancelled, and the US-Uzbekistan mineral agreement failed to be signed.
However, after the cold reception at the White House, Zelensky received widespread support from European leaders. Last Sunday local time, leaders from more than a dozen European and EU countries, as well as Ukraine and Canada, held a summit in London, England, to discuss the Ukraine crisis and European defense issues.
Before leaving London, Zelensky held a briefing and responded to reporters ‘questions about “ending the war and the outlines of new European initiatives”:”We are discussing the first steps today, so I don’t want to talk about them in detail until they are written on paper.”
“An agreement to end the war is still very, very far away, and no one has begun to take all these steps.The future peace we foresee must be fair, honest and most importantly sustainable,”he added.
In addition, he posted on the government website on Monday thatUkraine needs peace, but security is the key to achieving this goal. This is the bottom line that must be achieved and the red line that cannot be compromised. These positions will be submitted to the United States.
These remarks once again intensified the conflict between him and Trump.Trump once again criticized Zelensky on Monday, saying that as long as the United States has the support of the United States, the latter does not want peace.
Trump posted on his social media platform Social,”This may be the worst statement sky has ever made,The United States will not tolerate it anymore!”
“That’s what I’m going to say,As long as he has the support of the United States, this person does not want peace,In their meeting with Zelensky, European countries stated bluntly that they would not be able to complete the work without the United States. From the perspective of demonstrating strength to Russia, this may not be a good statement. What are they thinking?” He wrote.
Russia is happy to see the current situation.Kremlin spokesman Peskov said: “The Trump administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This is largely in line with our vision. Zelensky does not want peace. Someone should make Zelensky want peace.”
As the conflict between Trump and sky escalates,Some media quoted current and former U.S. officials as saying that the Trump administration has stopped funding the supply of new weapons to Ukraine and is considering freezing the delivery of weapons from U.S. stocks to Ukraine.
Reported that in recent weeks, this financing has been suspended due to the U.S. government’s freeze on foreign aid. butThe move to shut down the main channel for arms shipments in Ukraine came days after a heated meeting between President Trump and the Zelensky White House.
