{"id":10157,"date":"2025-03-04T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/zelensky-describes-oval-office-meeting-as-regrettable-says-he-is-ready-to-negotiate-peace\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:00:59","slug":"zelensky-describes-oval-office-meeting-as-regrettable-says-he-is-ready-to-negotiate-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/zelensky-describes-oval-office-meeting-as-regrettable-says-he-is-ready-to-negotiate-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky describes Oval Office meeting as \u2018regrettable,\u2019 says he is ready to negotiate peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his Oval Office meeting last week with US President Donald Trump \u201cdid not go the way it was supposed to,\u201d describing the <\/strong>fiery meeting as \u201cregrettable\u201d and noting that Ukraine is ready to negotiate about an end to the conflict. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to reiterate Ukraine\u2019s commitment to peace,\u201d Zelensky said on X, addressing his remarkable sit-down with Trump directly. Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelensky during the meeting, angrily accusing him of \u201cgambling with World War Three\u201d and telling him: \u201cYour country is in big trouble.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cOur meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be,\u201d Zelensky wrote in <\/strong>Tuesday\u2019s X post. \u201cIt is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNone of us wants an endless war,\u201d he added. \u201cUkraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump\u2019s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.\u201d <\/p>\n

Western leaders will hope the statement goes some way towards smoothing Kyiv\u2019s relations with the White House, but the disastrous Oval Office meeting underlined how strained that relationship has become. <\/p>\n

Zelensky also said in his Tuesday statement that Ukraine is ready to sign a minerals deal, which was meant to be signed on Friday until the argument led to Zelensky being told to leave the White House. <\/p>\n

\u201cRegarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

And he made a rare direct intervention on how a possible ceasefire might work. <\/strong>\u201cWe are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky \u2014 ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure \u2014 and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cThen we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal.\u201d <\/p>\n

That framework is similar to the plan proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron after Sunday\u2019s summit of Western leaders, which took place in London amid anxiety on the continent about Ukraine\u2019s future. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this,\u201d Zelensky added. <\/p>\n

It remains to be seen how Trump will respond to the Ukrainian leader\u2019s proposals or his reflections on the White House visit. But the lengthy statement suggests an effort by Kyiv to force its voice into discussions on the conflict\u2019s future, after the Trump administration opened talks with Russia last month and refused to invite Ukraine. <\/p>\n

Trump on Monday ordered a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine, which could have a dire effect on the country\u2019s war-fighting abilities. The halt in aid, which came after Trump held a series of meetings with top national security officials, will remain in place until Trump determines Zelensky has made a commitment to seeking peace talks, one official said \u2013 essentially forcing Ukraine to a negotiating table by threatening further losses on the battlefield. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his Oval Office meeting last week with US President Donald Trump \u201cdid not go the way it was supposed to,\u201d describing the fiery meeting as \u201cregrettable\u201d and noting that Ukraine is ready to negotiate about an end to the conflict. \u201cI would like to reiterate Ukraine\u2019s commitment to peace,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}