Donald Trump’s administration held secret talks with some of Volodymyr Zelensky’s top political opponents, it has emerged.
Four senior members of the Trump entourage spoke with Yulia Tymoshenko, the opposition leader, as well as senior members of former president Petro Poroshenko’s party, Politico reported.
Discussions centred around whether Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections, according to the report.
Canada could take part in Ukraine peacekeeping with ‘security guarantees’ from U.S., defence minister says
OTTAWA — Canada is willing to participate in an as-yet undefined peacekeeping operation in Ukraine if a deal to stop the fighting with Russia is reached, Defence Minister Bill Blair said Wednesday.
Blair stressed that he would want “security guarantees” from the United States, but that Canada is ready to play a role in what United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently dubbed a “coalition of the willing” to defend Ukraine and preserve peace if the ongoing war with Russia stops.
A British man who was captured by Russian troops while fighting for Ukraine has been sentenced to 19 years in prison.
James Scott Rhys Anderson was seized in November by President Putin’s forces. Moscow said he had been taken prisoner while participating in the Ukrainian army’s surprise offensive into the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine.
The United States has paused major portions of its intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, squeezing the flow of vital information that Kyiv has used to repel invading Russian forces and strike back at select targets inside Russia, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.
The rupture in intelligence-sharing includes a halt in targeting data that U.S. spy agencies supply to Kyiv so it can launch American-provided weapons and Ukraine-made long-range drones at Russian targets, Ukrainian officials said. Some Ukrainian missile operators say they are no longer receiving information needed to hit targets inside Russia.
Trump- Today I received a letter from President #Zelensky.
He is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible.#DonaldTrump #VolodymyrZelenskyy #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedStates #trumpnodisplacement #TrumpTariffs#Putin #Kiev #DonaldTrumpvan #vance #USA #Trump pic.twitter.com/T4R6RczcbI— Sujit Gupta (@sujitnewslive) March 5, 2025
British media is offended by the suggestion from Vice President J.D. Vance that an American economic presence is a better security guarantee for Ukrainians than “peacekeeping” troops pulled across Europe.
On the eve of the president’s address to Congress, Vance went on Fox News’ “Hannity” with Sean Hannity to discuss the importance of a minerals deal between Washington, D.C., and Kyiv. The deal, which was supposed to be signed Friday, would have established an American-controlled fund filled with revenue from Ukraine’s natural resources designed to facilitate the war-torn country’s reconstruction. The agreement, however, was sidelined after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hostile White House meeting. Vance rejected Zelensky’s posture to prolong the war in the White House Friday and again on Fox News Monday.
Sir Keir Starmer and our European allies have issued a lot of brave words and fighting talk on protecting Ukraine and taking on Putin. “We are at a crossroads in history today,” Starmer said after the London summit, announcing a “coalition of the willing” to support Zelensky. “European unity is at an extremely high level not seen for a long time.” Is it, though?
The truth is that Europe last year paid far more money to Putin’s coffers in the form of oil and gas payments than it has given to the Ukrainians – and continues to do so. Europe today imports far more Russian liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from Russia than at the beginning of the war.
CNN's Jake Tapper admits that Europeans are funding both sides of the war in Ukraine.
"Europeans were actually buying more Russian oil and gas than they were helping Ukraine… So in some ways, the Europeans are funding both sides of the war."
Wow, if only someone had called… pic.twitter.com/IBBMgeGS6z
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 4, 2025
NEW YORK, March 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and Ukraine plan to sign the much-debated minerals deal following a disastrous Oval Office meeting Friday in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was dismissed from the building, four people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did more than petulantly and very publicly change the deal he agreed to sign in his notorious meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. But things were apparently more off-the-rails than we even knew.
The US vice-president has sparked a row with comments he made about the potential involvement of international forces to police a peace deal in Ukraine.
UK opposition politicians accused JD Vance of disrespecting British forces, after he told Fox News a US stake in Ukraine’s economy was a “better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.
The UK and France have said they would be willing to put troops on the ground in Ukraine as part of a peace deal.
March 2025 is not March 2022.
1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024) alone have the power to save him. For his own sake, I hope he is not being “briefed” by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to confront Trump, given their interests are not really Ukraine’s as they feign.
Starmer’s posturing against Russia is as deluded as it is dangerous.
UK prime minister Keir Starmer seems intent on sending British soldiers to Ukraine to police any future ceasefire with Russia. Having first mooted putting ‘troops on the ground’ a couple of weeks ago, Starmer has since doubled down on this plan at Sunday’s emergency summit of European leaders in London.
America will not follow in this idiotic decision.
Keir Starmer announces that Britain is ready to send boots on the ground and planes in the air to Ukraine and says Europe must step up.
These globalists are starting World War III
pic.twitter.com/psfq7IJDKt— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) March 2, 2025
I have always been fond of Canada—and Canadians. I have always had respect for the beauty and history of Europe.
But sadly, I have started losing that affinity.
Canada and the E.U. have recently been treating the United States like a baby treats a diaper. This is particularly reprehensible in light of 250 years or so of history and shared destinies.
Got this text from a European conservative friend on Sunday, referring to the Zelensky tea party in the Oval Office on Friday: “The Europeans, including many conservatives, are going crazy. They are messaging me that the U.S. joined Putin and we need to build nuclear weapons asap.”
Gosh. Well, they aren’t going to like this Sunday night social media missive from the U.S. president.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday directed a “pause” to U.S. assistance to Ukraine after a disastrous Oval Office meeting as he seeks to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in peace talks with Russia.
A White House official said Trump is focused on reaching a peace deal to end the more than three-year war sparked by Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, and wants Zelenskyy “committed” to that goal. The official added that the U.S. was “pausing and reviewing” its aid to “ensure that it is contributing to a solution.” The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the assistance.
BREAKING: President Trump has stopped all military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Zelensky at the White House.
The pause won't stop until Trump determines that "the Ukrainians show a commitment of good faith peace negotiations."
The move comes after Zelensky said that… pic.twitter.com/NbYtlGT0qE
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 4, 2025
Key Takeaways from Trump’s Press Conference:
– Tariffs Hit Hard: Trump says those who stole U.S. jobs and factories are now paying the price through tariffs.
– Zelenskyy Must Be Grateful: Trump wants Zelenskyy to be more appreciative of U.S. support, noting America has given… pic.twitter.com/dvme8WSNSa
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 3, 2025
