{"id":250865,"date":"2025-03-03T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/zelensky-turns-to-diplomacy-in-a-war-with-a-long-way-to-go\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:59:11","slug":"zelensky-turns-to-diplomacy-in-a-war-with-a-long-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/zelensky-turns-to-diplomacy-in-a-war-with-a-long-way-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Turns to Diplomacy in a War With \u2018a Long Way to Go\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/03\/multimedia\/03ukraine-zelensky-01-vmlp\/03ukraine-zelensky-01-vmlp-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Zelensky Turns to Diplomacy in a War With \u2018a Long Way to Go\u2019\" title=\"Zelensky Turns to Diplomacy in a War With \u2018a Long Way to Go\u2019\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to Ukraine on Monday after a whirlwind diplomatic mission that included both humiliation, by President Trump, and a warm embrace, from European leaders. He vowed to use all diplomatic avenues to pursue an end to Ukraine\u2019s war with Russia, but acknowledged there was \u201ca long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia has given no indication that it will accept any terms other than Ukrainian capitulation and permanent conquest of a large swath of Ukraine \u2014 and Mr. Trump makes clearer by the day that his intent is to stand with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukrainians have insisted they will not lay down their arms unless they receive security guarantees, supported by the United States, that would prevent the Kremlin from regrouping and attacking again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-zelensky-us-ukraine-russia.html\" title=\"\">a disastrous meeting with Mr. Trump<\/a> on Friday, in which the American president and Vice President JD Vance berated him for being ungrateful, Mr. Zelensky received <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/02\/world\/europe\/starmer-zelensky-meeting-europe-ukraine-trump.html\" title=\"\">a show of support from Europe\u2019s democracies<\/a> on Sunday, who pledged to work with Ukraine to come up with a peace plan that it could then present to the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky himself said American buy-in for a peace plan was important and seemed to go further in his efforts to smooth things over with the White House. \u201cWe are grateful for all the support we have received from the United States,\u201d he said in his address to the nation Sunday night. \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been a single day when we haven\u2019t felt grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere will be diplomacy for peace,\u201d Mr. Zelensky said. \u201cAnd for the sake of all of us standing together \u2014 Ukraine, the whole of Europe, and necessarily America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the Ukrainian leader faces a monumental challenge in repairing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/world\/europe\/zelensky-trump-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">his relationship with Mr. Trump<\/a> and his advisers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a series of coordinated interviews on American television on Sunday, top Trump administration officials assailed the Ukrainian leader, often in remarkably personal terms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">National security adviser Mike Waltz compared him to \u201can ex-girlfriend that wants to argue everything that you said nine years ago, rather than moving the relationship forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, questioned whether Ukraine and the United States really share common values and extended her critique to European countries who rallied around Mr. Zelensky, saying, they \u201cdon\u2019t stand with us around these fundamental values of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When asked by the host of Fox News Sunday if Russia stood for the same values as Americans, she said \u201cthat\u2019s not really what we\u2019re talking about here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Zelensky left the White House, Mr. Trump said he could return when he is \u201cready for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump has said little about any concessions from the Kremlin as he aligns himself ever more closely with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country,\u201d he wrote in a post on social media. \u201cSo that we don\u2019t end up like Europe!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Oval Office meeting fed into propaganda from the Kremlin, which added to the pile-on on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The meeting showed that \u201cthe Kyiv regime and Zelensky don\u2019t want peace, they want continuation of the war,\u201d the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters on Monday. His comments connoted a tightening bond between Moscow and Washington as they falsely portray Ukraine as the aggressor, unwilling to make peace. Attempts by Washington and Moscow \u201cwill clearly not be enough\u201d to end the fighting, Mr. Peskov said. \u201cAn important element is missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He implied that Russia could now push for a harder bargain than it did during the failed peace talks at the start of the war, given Russia\u2019s military gains. \u201cSince then, 2 \u00bd years later, the situation has changed,\u201d Mr. Peskov said. \u201cOnly the blind can\u2019t see that or the deaf not wanting to hear that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky sought to defend himself from being painted as the obstacle to peace \u2014 a criticism many Ukrainians find hard to understand given that their country that has been under fierce attack for three years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukrainians almost universally want peace, just not peace at any cost. \u201cWe need peace, not endless war,\u201d Mr. Zelensky said once again as he returned to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But bitter experience has Ukrainians worried that a cease-fire without security guarantees would only provide a brief respite for Russian forces to regroup and attack again. They point to the fact that Ukraine has been fighting Russia in the eastern Donbas region since 2014 and that Mr. Putin has violated multiple peace accords aimed at ending the violence there. The Russian leader also claimed he had no intention of mounting a broader invasion of Ukraine right up until his tanks rolled across the border three years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky\u2019s insistence on pushing for security guarantees was one of the things that apparently angered Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Mr. Zelensky now works with European leaders to come up with a peace plan, he said once again that there are some fundamental principals not open to negotiation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe need to proceed from the understanding of international law,\u201d he said during a meeting with reporters in London. \u201cWe don\u2019t want anything that doesn\u2019t belong to us, but when you occupy something or when you break the law, everything will come back to you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He emphasized that Ukraine will never recognize the occupied territories as Russian: \u201cFor us, this will be temporary occupations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia, he said, would need to take concrete actions before any deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe cease-fire must begin with the exchange of prisoners and the return of children,\u201d his office wrote in a statement. \u201cThis would be a step to demonstrate Russia\u2019s genuine intent for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The International Criminal Court has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/17\/world\/europe\/icc-putin-ukraine-war.html\" title=\"\">issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Putin<\/a> and accused him of war crimes, based on Russia\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/03\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-children-deportation-adoption.html\" title=\"\">abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian<\/a> children during the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The French have also suggested a staged process, perhaps with a truce regarding strikes on energy infrastructure by both sides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For now, the fighting rages on as violently as ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since Mr. Trump spoke with Mr. Putin two weeks ago, there has been no letup Russian attacks. Dozens of Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the past two weeks, according to Ukrainian officials, as Russia continues to launch nightly drone and missile attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, Ukraine has kept up its campaign targeting Russian oil and gas refineries, hoping to deepen the economic pressure on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one attack, drones reportedly took aim at the Ufimsky refinery plant, more than 800 miles from the nearest Ukrainian-held territory. It was not possible to immediately assess the impact of the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hopeful that America\u2019s turn against Kyiv could do for him what his military has failed to do, Mr. Putin has stuck to his maximalist goals in public comments in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those include a desire to take control over wide swaths of land his forces do not yet occupy and which at the current pace of the Russian military\u2019s creeping advances it would take many years to capture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Anatoly Kurmanaev<!-- --> contributed reporting from Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/03\/world\/europe\/zelensky-ukraine-russia-putin.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to Ukraine on Monday after a whirlwind diplomatic mission that included both humiliation, by President Trump, and a warm embrace, from European leaders. 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