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President Trump told Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin to sit down, negotiate and end the war — “They have to get together and get it done.” But the focus belongs somewhere else: Putin is the aggressor, and Trump is not understanding the situation as he should.
Ukraine understands Putin. Kyiv knows exactly who it is dealing with, and Ukraine respects America as a partner. But Trump at times listens too much to Putin — and that is now obvious with what happened.
Look at the sequence. Zelenskyy, on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, offered Putin 60 days of total ceasefire so Ukraine could organise elections. On Monday, the Kremlin publicly turned it down. “We do not want a ceasefire,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “We want long-term peace.” Moscow says Putin would halt strikes on election day itself, and contacts on a mutual energy ceasefire are ongoing — even as Zelenskyy says Russia hit six Ukrainian energy facilities, wounding 33 people.
One side put a ceasefire on the table. The other side said no. Telling both of them to “get together” as if the refusal came from both directions misses the fact sitting in plain sight: the man who started this war is the man still refusing to stop it.
Trump cited a staggering 32,000 losses in a single month and called the continued bloodshed “ridiculous.” He is right about the cost. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha says Ukraine is ready for a mutual halt to energy strikes, and Kyiv has treated Washington as the partner that can end this — because Ukraine understands Putin in a way that only comes from living under his bombs.
Peace is the goal, and nobody has paid more for this war than Ukrainians. But peace does not start by splitting the blame evenly. It starts by naming the aggressor — and the aggressor just told the world, again, that he does not want a ceasefire.
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