Volodymyr Zelenskyy has delivered a blunt message to Donald Trump after the US president dropped his demands for a ceasefire in the Ukraine war.
Trump’s dramatic U-turn came after he held talks with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, he said: “It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up.”
But speaking in Brussels on Sunday following talks with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Zelenskyy – who will travel to Washington for his own meeting with Trump tomorrow – rejected that idea.
The Ukrainian president said: “We have to stop the killing. Putin has ma