Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged former President Donald Trump on Tuesday to release details of a clear plan that the 2024 Republican presidential candidate claims will end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours.”
Trump, 77, has wildly bragged in several interviews and campaign events that if elected president next year, he would lead peace talks between Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin and resolve the conflict within a day.
The former commander-in-chief, however, refused to give details on the approach he would take to end the nearly 19-month war.
“He can share his ideas openly now, not wasting time, not losing people, and saying, ‘My formula is to stop the war and stop all these tragedies and stop Russian aggression,'” Zelensky told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “And he said, how he sees it, how to push Russia from our land. Otherwise, he does not present the idea of global peace.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with Trump to share details of his plan to end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours.” Getty Images
Zelensky, 45, stated that any peace deal that would see Ukraine cede land to Russia would be a non-starter.
“So [if] the idea is how to take part in our territory and give Putin, that’s not a peace formula,” said the Ukrainian leader.
Since at least February, Trump has been touting his secret plan to end the war.
Former President Trump claimed he could lead peace talks between Zelensky and Vladimir Putin if he was in office.AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr spoke to CNN about Trump possibly rejecting his formula for stopping the war — saying the former president’s plan may not present the idea of global peace. AFP via Getty Images
“It can be negotiated in 24 hours,” Trump told the Right-Wing Broadcasting Network on February 2. “It’s got to be done from the president’s office, and you’ve got to get them both in a room, and there’s something you can say to each of them — which I won’t reveal now — that will guarantee this war will end immediately. They need to do it.”
In March, the former president also told Fox News host Sean Hannity that negotiations between himself, Zelensky and Putin would be “easy.”
“If it is not resolved [by the next presidential inauguration]”I’m going to get it done within 24 hours with Zelensky and with Putin, and there’s a very easy negotiation to do, but I don’t want to tell you what it is because I can’t use that negotiation,” Trump said. , not so much as hinting at his negotiating strategy.
State Emergency Service workers put out a fire in a house after an overnight Russian airstrike, in Kyiv Region in northern Ukraine on August 30, 2023. Volodymyr Tarasov / UkrInform / Avalon
When asked Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if his deal would allow Putin to keep land he took in Ukraine, Trump replied, “No, no. I’m going to make a deal that’s fair for everybody. No, I’m going to make it fair.”
Zelensky delivered a rousing speech at the United Nations in Manhattan on Tuesday, calling on world leaders to “act united to defeat the aggressors.”
He took the stage hours after President Biden called for international unity against Russia’s attacks in his speech before the UN General Assembly.
The Ukrainian president will travel to Washington on Thursday, where he will meet with Biden, 80, at the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other congressional leaders on Capitol Hill, amid Republican skepticism that increasingly about sending billions of dollars in more aid to Ukraine.
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