Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea of a ceasefire with Russia in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian leader said he wouldn’t accept a ceasefire that leaves Russian forces in areas of Ukraine they have captured and said Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted.
“We cannot simply trust Putin in principle,” Zelensky said. “We cannot trust him because he is a killer and the aggressor.”
Zelensky’s comments came after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made his first wartime visit to Kyiv and suggested Zelensky consider a ceasefire with Russia rather than his so-called “peace formula” that requires a Russian withdrawal before peace talks can even begin.
After meeting with Zelensky, Orban said that the Ukrainian leader was “not enthusiastic” about his idea. Ukrainian officials also said that Zelensky quickly rejected the proposal.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he couldn’t agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine because he couldn’t be sure that it would be followed. Both Putin and Zelensky said the other side could use a ceasefire to rebuild its forces.
“We can’t allow the enemy to use this ceasefire to improve its situation, to arm itself, to reconstitute its army through forced mobilization and to be ready to continue the armed conflict,” Putin said.
In his interview, Zelensky said that he wanted to see former President Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine. Trump has claimed he could quickly end the war but hasn’t articulated how he would do it.
Putin also discussed Trump’s comments and said he thought the former president was serious about ending the proxy war. “The fact that Mr. Trump, as a presidential candidate, declares that he is ready and wants to stop the war in Ukraine, we take this completely seriously,” he said.
“I am not, of course, familiar with possible proposals for how he plans to do this. This is the key question. But I have no doubt that he means it sincerely, and we support it,” Putin added.
Throughout the war, the only time a real peace deal was on the table was back in March and April of 2022. But the US and NATO discouraged Ukraine from signing an agreement and promised to support its fight against Russia.
"Zelensky Rejects Idea of Ceasefire With Russia"
OF course when the music stops he is a dead man walking!
My question is this: who is protecting him. Lt. Col. Wilkerson on the podcast, Judging Freedom, suggested that he is heavily guarded.
You don't think the Russians are after him? I will bet you Putin is heavily guarded too, actually come to think of it I bet Joe Biden has some kind of protection as well.
If peace is signed his dictatorship is over,so….
He is no dictator. He is a face, and only a face of the U.S. MIC.
Technically, he can’t even sign a peace deal, since he is not the legitimate leader of that country.
The illegitimate president cannot last for ever…!
He cannot accept or reject anything. His term as president ended.
Ours seem to last four to eight years . . .
The establishment may just kneecap him to get rid of him. The public focus is on Biden's dementia and refusal to step down, not much attention on Trump.
What takes so long, a helicopter crash is all it takes, and the people in charge know how to do it.
I hope Orban has super protection, remember JFK AND ALL THE OTHER ASSASSINATIONS OUR CURRENT LEADERS ORDERED?
I doubt that any of “our current leaders” were in power when JFK was assassinated.
I had no idea, you had a sense of humor.
The institutions have not changed just some people, the CIA and other intelligence services still functions, they more likely use drones and hellfire missiles now. Snipers did the JFK job and who knows who did the RFK job. Our leaders are killers with no exceptions, Biden and Trump are killers and so was Obama and not to forget W. and his father. I know of no exception.
VP Johnson. Allen Dulles. Israel over President Kennedy furiously against Israel developing the bomb (President Kennedy and Ben-Gurion exchanged terse letters), military industrial complex. I agree with you as to there being no "current leaders" involved. There were plenty of folks who wanted Kennedy out of the way.
Azov veto in action.
The spineless Clown really is pathetic
The vise: Azov is one side, the U.S. is the other side. I would imagine that Z wishes he was back being just a comedian playing a piano.
Z could retire whenever he wishes with probably no repercussions. He could just say he no longer identifies as a leader but instead now identifies as a dancer and go dance or whatever he does. He’s in some really weird videos doing weird dances…
They seem to increasingly want to replace him.
Everyday
Orban and Putin are the only adults in the room. All else is trash, little spine and brainless creatures. See Zelensky, the two legged corruption without any legal position and the demented Biden or conman Trump and the NATO leadership, UK, France, Germany the sorriest, corrupt leadership, spineless and brainless.
Well, at least both Zelensky and Putin are equally enthusiastic about mr. Trump's magical powers: he says stuff and then this becomes true. If that isn't Trump's plan in it's entirety I shall be very surprised. Call me a coldhearted cynic, but I suspect neither mr Zelensky nor mr Putin are as optimistic about mr. Trumps mastery of the art of conjuring wizardry as they profess to be.
There must be more than a few world leaders – Presidents Xi and Putin not least among them – who recognize that given the antagonistic nature of the USA in world politics, the best way to destabilize and ruin America is to support Trump.
I call it the "Bin Laden Doctrine" – recognition that no external forces can demolish the American economy or society anywhere near as effectively as the Americans themselves can do it if properly provoked into mis-action.
With Emperor Trump in the Oval Office again & Project 2025 implemented in whole or in part, the USA will collapse from within.
I will be the last to doubt the destructive power of al Trump. It is truly impressive and most importantly, as you allude to, reliable.
But I don't think any foreign power wishing harm to America would be very disappointed with a second Biden presidency. The ensuing demolition of what is left of any coherency within the American societal fabric promises to closely follow the evaporation of international standing and probably about as swiftly as mr. Biden's progressively fading mental faculties.
I'm no Trump fan, but I think the knowing complicity of Biden in the Genocide of tens of thousands of woman & Children tops the list of
"Make them hate America & hate to do business with them, buy their stuff or vote for their their ideas & plans. In the UN or anywhere else!!!!
Trump will continue where Biden left off.
Biden is not a presentable presidential figure, Trump at least is awake and present on stage.
The focus is all on Biden and his resistance to step down, which confirms how sick he and his family really is while the anyone is better than Biden slogan is rising.
The party DNC, the political elite knows how to get rid of him, they can kneecap him and open the gate for Kamala or Trump, either one will do.
Yes, genocide Joe will go down in history, with his squinting mug prominently featuring on the gallery with the world's most despised mass murderers.
But what to think of a Trump presidency that will have to deal with acknowledging to having lost the war against Russia? Taking into account the mathematically impossible infinitude of Trump's ego and provided he can't actually alter reality by bullshitting it into existence, what madness should we expect to ensue? I mean that's preferable over the madness of Biden or whatever chaos president Harris will unleash into the future, uh, unburdened by her past of course.
Better to “lose” the war than throw more $$$ down the toilet.
Trump will cut off the gravytrain and there will be peace.
Alleluia!
I’m completely in favor of cutting off the gravy train.
But that wouldn’t result in peace.
It would take good will on both sides.
We don't have a statesman, competent, with character and common sense, able to show respect and diplomatic ability and willingness to compromise, to speak and reach a fair and square agreement to end the slaughter with the other side.
Zelensky showed all the stupidity and malice of the Western powers instead. He has a couple of bodies left he can throw in the meat grinder. Such a great man, the Clown Zelensky taking orders from the demented Joe must go Biden.
Maybe not peace, but I'll take it as a win if I'm not being financially extracted by the US state to fund murder and mayhem.
That depends if he gets permission to end it. As Putin said, Trump has not said how he can do it.
We have been there, have done that, vote for the lesser evil.
There is no competent possible statesman/woman with character and common sense to be seen.
Yes, I know. It is truly remarkable, this is not true for the US alone, it is in the entire 'West' where – with precious and by their peers passionately hated exceptions, there are no politicians, male or female, possessing the qualities of an actual statesman: to be cultured, erudite, educated, inquisitive, rational, moral, visionary and able to skilfully walk the tightrope between principledness and pragmatism to achieve intended results, to even a discernable degree. Instead we have morons, fraudsters, bullshitters, compulsive liars, ideological fanatics, greedy narcissists, some cartoonish crooks, and as it appears perhaps also one or few with advanced stage Parkinson or Lewy body dementia. And the entire system that we somehow persist mistakingly in calling 'democracy' rests on all these debilitating flaws of character being the most effective positive selection criteria.
I fully agree with you. I think the people who gave us Trump and Biden gave the Europeans their shysters in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and others add Sweden and Finland. So many irrational and incompetent leaders at one time is not a coincident. The Americans alone have instigated bloody coups in many nations around the globe since WW II, the big corporate powers and lobbies have a bad smell, they are megalomaniacs and never get enough. The people who meet in Davos every Jan. have tons of money to buy as many politicians as they need. Adelson alone supported Trump with $100 million and his widow now does the same and Jill Stein has to fight for government funds she was told to get.
You think the Gazans will cheer the election of Trump???
The Gazans are acutely aware of the fact that it doesn't matter who occupies the White House for them. What is Trump to do what Biden didn't? Bring their children back to life and then kill them again? Hunger their newborns to death faster?
Putin reminded the people, Trump did not say how he would end it.
Skepticism is justified.
Yes, but then again if he actually would try as he said, that's good news in itself. But is it though? What if he was just off the cuff bullshitting again, but actually believes it because he heard himself saying it and that of course would make it true. And what if this is the case with about the same 100% probability that he will fail?
Trump is an outstanding megalomaniac as is Biden and Harris. Trump is more than flaky to say the least, he has no coherent police , if he were serious he would have one. What strikes me is the politicians and media’s handling of the problem, it is all about party strategy to hold on to power and not a thought about the consequences for the nations future, and the real lack of competent leaders to replace a demented president who should never have been president in the first place. The thought of replacing him with Harris or another incompetent old man like Trump is mindboggling. They picked an old man for president and did not bother to pick a competent VP. Strategy to hold on to power is all that counts, to hell with the country and its people.
Orban has all the EU hens in a flutter. Hopefully we're seeing the beginning of a schism. If Turkey and Germany join Orban things will change fast.
Most of the EU is ramping up their defense spending quite dramatically. There is even talk of a draft in several countries. Once the Russians signaled to the world that borders were more like "guidelines" …
… which is guaranteed to cause a wide and exponential increase in support of Orban’s peace initiative.
Big talk from a little man. he must be shaking in his green suit at the prospect of an incoming Trump administration. He must be readying his mansions abroad for the relocation in November.
Biden already lost, Trump would make no difference. Like Putin said, Trump did not say HOW he would end it, Putin knows Trump will have to follow orders from the same people in control of Biden.
Trump is all bluster for the most part. Putin isn't going to jeopardize Russian security for another WEF /international finance puppet. Trump whiffed during his first administration, hiding behind the COVID scam to justify his insane spending. He also never ended any of our moronic 'forever" wars either. He did end Afghanistan, but left Biden holding the bag. Even if Biden held to the original pullout timetable, it was going to be a total sh*%show. Trump is a chump. but he tells his pathetic, powerless followers what they want to hear, but never really follows through with. They are like battered wives.
I totally agree with you. I think that Trump really respects Putin, my impression is that Putin always treated President Trump with respect knowing well how irrational he is. Respect of one head of state to another head of state, something Biden never learned.
As things stand, Zelensky doesn't have Constitutional authority to negotiate anything. Biden obviously can't negotiate anything. Maybe Waldo can sign something…. if anybody can find him.
Comrade Z is obviously suicidal.
Both sides would use a ceasefire to rebuild, are you kidding?
However, that should never be a reason people won't just put the guns down for a while.
What happened to common sense? Really, that is all it takes to end the slaughter. But insane leadership and greed is not about life and simple human decency and compassion for others, real animals have it, just not human animals like Biden and Zelensky and the elite establishment, they sold their souls a long time ago if they ever had one.
The only principle that matters to him is his cut of the $43 billion he has coming.
The real difference of leadership on display,
Zelensky the Clown who sold his nation for cannonfodder to demented genocide Biden, a demented genocide Biden who can't deal with losing the war he started and still is pushing the arming and slaughter of defenseless young men, long after they know they lost the war, pushing the Ukrainians to "unconditional" surrender. The American way.
The other side,
two statesmen Putin and Orban with common sense, character and human decency, a compassion for the loss of life neither Biden nor Zelensky or anyone in their political establishment show they have.
He gets peace, he loses power- same with bibi
When Victor Orban attends the NATO conference in Washington this week he better have an air tight security detail with him.
He is going into the belly of the most evil beast in our times. The fascist NEOCON controlled secret intelligence operatives are pervasive in Washington.
Good luck Prime Minister Orban you are one of my heroes.
NATO SUMMIT: European Split on Ukraine/Russia War Grows
If there is anything left of NATO, it is falling apart.