Khmeltski, Ukraine – Russian officials and state media took a triumphant tone Thursday after US President Donald Trump went out for three years of US policy and announced that he would do so Probably meet soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin To negotiate a peace agreement in the almost three -year war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that he will not accept any agreements on Ukraine that do not include his country in conversation.

Trump’s change in thank you seemed to identify Putin as the only player that is important when it comes to ending the fighting and looked on the Zelenskyy page, as well as European governments, in all peace negotiations. The Ukrainian leader recently described the prospect as “very dangerous.”

Putin has been exhausted by the West since Russia’s February 2022 Invasion of its neighbor and 2023 The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader for war crimes.

Here is a look at some reactions to Wednesday’s events.

“For us, the position of the current (US) administration is much more appealing,” said the Kremlin speaker Dmitry Peskov Thursday.

Russian officials and state -supported media seemed triumphant after Wednesday’s conversation between Trump and Putin that lasted for more than an hour.

“The presidents in Russia and the United States have finally talked. This is very important in itself, “said Deputy Chairman of Russia’s National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in a statement online.

Senior legislature Alexei Pushkov said the conversation “will go down in the history of world politics and diplomacy.”

“I’m sure that in Kiev, Brussels, Paris and London, they are now reading Trump’s long statement about his conversation with Putin with fear and can’t believe their eyes,” Pushkov wrote on his messages.

Russia’s state news agency Ria Novosti said in an opinion column: “The United States finally injured Zelenskyy for real”, and admitted that Trump had found “common land” with Putin.

“This means that the formula” nothing about Ukraine but Ukraine ” – a sacred cow for Zeleskyky, the European Union and the former US administration – no longer exist. In addition, the view from Kyiv and Brussels (European Union) is not of interest to Trump at all, ”added it.

The Russian popular pro-cremlin-Tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda went even further and published a column that stated in the headline that “Trump signed Zelenskyy’s death sentence.”

“The myth of Russia as a” Pariah “in global politics, carefully bloated by Western propaganda, has burst with one blow,” the column says.

In his first comments on journalists since Trump, individual conversations first held with Putin and then Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian leader said that the most important thing was to “not let everything go according to Putin’s plan.”

“We cannot accept it as an independent country any agreements (done) without us. I formulate this very clearly for our partners- all bilateral negotiations on Ukraine, not on other topics, but all bilateral conversations about Ukraine but us- We will not accept, ”said Zelenskyy when he visited a nuclear power station in western Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said that during his conversation with Trump on Wednesday, the US president told him he wanted to talk to both Russian and Ukrainian leaders at the same time.

“He never mentioned in a conversation like Putin and Russia was a priority. We trust these words today. For us, it is very important to preserve the support of the United States of America. “Said Zelenskyy.

Trump seems to be minded to make an agreement above the heads of Ukraine and European governments.

He also effectively dashed Ukraine’s hope of becoming part of NATO, as the Alliance said less than a year ago was A “irreversible” stepOr to get back the parts of its territory, estimated at close to 20% of the country, so far captured by the Russian army.

The attitude of the US administration to a potential solution is particularly close to Moscow’s vision of how the war would end. It has caused alarms and excitement Within 32-nation NATO Alliance and 27-nations European Union.

Some European governments that fear their countries may also be in the Kremels cross chair became concerned about Washington’s new course and said they must have a place at the negotiating table.

“Ukraine, Europe and the United States should work on this together. Together, ”Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on social media Wednesday.

Others balked against Trump’s overturns and poured cold water on his optimistic vision.

“Just as Putin does not intend to stop hostilities, even during potential conversations, we must maintain Western unit and increase the support … to Ukraine and political and economic pressure on Russia,” said Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna. “Our actions must show that we do not change course.”

A soldier from Ukraine’s 53rd brigade fight in the eastern Donetsk region said it was normal for Trump and Putin to talk to each other.

“If dialogue is a way to influence the situation, let them talk – but let it be meaningful for us to feel the results of these conversations,” said the soldier and insisted on anonymity due to security risks for her family in occupied Ukrainian territory.

But she was skeptical of the negotiations, given the incompatible requirements previously presented by Russia and Ukraine.

“Conditions are unacceptable for everyone. What we propose does not work for them, and what they propose is unacceptable to us, ”she said. “That’s why I, as probably every soldier here, think this can only be solved by force.”

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