Mon 24 November 2025:
US President Donald Trump accused Ukraine’s leadership on Sunday of showing “zero gratitude” for American efforts to end the war with Russia, while blaming his predecessor for the conflict.
“Ukraine ‘leadership’ has expressed zero gratitude for our efforts, and Europe continues to buy oil from Russia,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
He claimed the war “would have never happened” with “strong and proper US and Ukrainian leadership” and said it began during “the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration.”
He argued that if the 2020 election had not been “rigged and stolen,” there would be no Ukraine-Russia war, claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin “would never have attacked.”
Trump said he “inherited a war that should have never happened, a war that is a loser for everyone, especially the millions of people that have so needlessly died.”
The comments came as senior US and Ukrainian officials are holding discussions in Geneva on a 28-point US peace plan.
The draft plan appears to require Ukraine to surrender additional territory to Russia, limit its military size, and formally abandon NATO membership.
Trump, who said the plan would not be his “final offer,” gave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy until Thursday to respond.
Zelenskyy said he faces a choice between “loss of our dignity or the risk of losing a key partner.”
On Saturday, leaders of nine European countries plus Japan, Canada, and EU officials expressed concern over proposed limitations on Ukraine’s armed forces, warning they “would leave Ukraine vulnerable to future attack.”
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Ukraine’s borders cannot be changed by force
Ukraine‘s borders cannot be changed by force, its army cannot be reduced, leaving it vulnerable to an attack and the European Union must have a central role in a peace deal for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
Von der Leyen’s statement on Sunday comes as top officials from the United States, Ukraine, and national security advisers from France, Britain and Germany hold talks in Geneva on Sunday to discuss Washington’s draft plan to end the war in Ukraine.
“Any credible and sustainable peace plan should first and foremost stop the killing and end the war, while not sowing the seeds for a future conflict,” she said in a statement.
“We have agreed on the main elements necessary for a just and lasting peace and Ukraine’s sovereignty. Let me highlight three of them. First, borders cannot be changed by force,” she said.
“Second, as a sovereign nation, there cannot be limitations on Ukraine’s armed forces that would leave the country vulnerable to future attack and thereby also undermining European security,” the statement said.
“Third, the centrality of the European Union in securing peace for Ukraine must be fully reflected. Ukraine must have the freedom and sovereign right to choose its own destiny. They have chosen a European destiny,” von der Leyen said.
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