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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Friday (October 17, 2025) called connected Kyiv and Moscow to “stop wherever they are” and extremity their brutal warfare pursuing a lengthy White House gathering with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Mr. Trump’s vexation with the struggle has surfaced repeatedly successful the 9 months since he returned to office, but with his latest comments, helium appeared to beryllium edging backmost successful the absorption of pressing Ukraine to springiness up connected retaking onshore it has mislaid to Russia.
“Enough humor has been shed, with spot lines being defined by War and Guts,” Mr. Trump said successful a Truth Social station not agelong aft hosting Mr. Zelenskyy and his team for much than 2 hours of talks. “They should halt wherever they are. Let some assertion victory; fto past decide!”
Later, soon aft arriving successful Florida, wherever helium is spending the weekend, Mr. Trump urged some sides to “stop the warfare immediately” and implied that Moscow support the territory it has taken from Kyiv.
“You spell by the conflict enactment wherever it is — different it is excessively complicated,” Mr. Trump told reporters.
In caller weeks, Mr. Trump had shown increasing impatience with Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed greater openness to helping Ukraine triumph the war.
Indeed, aft gathering with Mr. Zelenskyy successful New York on the sidelines of the yearly United Nations General Assembly past month, Mr. Trump adjacent said helium believed the Ukrainians could triumph backmost each the territory they had mislaid to Russia since Putin launched the February 2022 invasion. That was a melodramatic displacement for Mr. Trump, who had antecedently insisted that Kyiv would person to concede onshore mislaid to Russia to extremity the war.
Mr Zelenskyy, aft Friday’s (October 17, 2025) meeting, said it was clip for a ceasefire and negotiations. He sidestepped straight answering a question astir Mr. Trump nudging Ukraine to springiness up land.
“The President is right; we person to halt wherever we are and past speak,” Mr. Zelenskyy said erstwhile asked by reporters astir Mr. Trump’s societal media post, which helium had not seen.
Mr. Trump’s code connected the warfare shifted aft helium held a lengthy telephone telephone with Mr. Putin connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) and announced that helium planned to conscionable with the Russian person successful Budapest, Hungary, successful the coming weeks.
The President besides signalled to Mr. Zelenskyy connected Friday (October 17, 2025) that helium is leaning against selling him long-range Tomahawk missiles, weaponry that the Ukrainians judge could beryllium a crippled changer successful helping prod Mr. Putin to the negotiating table.
