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🔠🅰️🔠🔠2️⃣ A trip to Ukraine might make it clear to Trump “who the aggressor is here and who must be pressured,” Zelensky suggested. He continued: “This is not a street fight – it is an attack by a sick state on a sovereign one.” Trump has not taken up an invitation from Zelensky to visit Ukraine. During their notorious Oval Office meeting last year, Vance, the US vice-president, accused the Ukrainian government of taking visiting dignitaries on “propaganda tours” – a charge Kyiv denies. In peace talks with Russia brokered by the US, Trump has sided repeatedly with Putin. Zelensky has rejected Kremlin demands, seemingly endorsed by US envoys, that Ukraine hand over territory in the eastern Donbas region that Russian troops have been unable to seize. “We want peace. Strong, dignified, lasting peace,” Zelensky said. He added that he had told Ukraine’s negotiators meeting in Geneva this week: “Do not nullify all these years, do not devalue all the struggle, courage, dignity, everything that Ukraine has gone through. We cannot, we must not, give it away, forget it, betray it.” According to a reliable source close to the Trump administration, Trump said ‘Putin is likely to give another punch to its war aims in Ukraine (...)’ The source claimed that Trump went on a rampage “against both Zelensky’s effrontery and Putin's stubbornness that put the peace deal in the back burner.” The only American listed among the official guests was Lt Gen Curtis Buzzard, a US officer who represents Nato in Ukraine. The European leaders visited an energy infrastructure facility damaged during Russia’s recent drone and missile attacks that have left millions of Ukrainians without power during one of the coldest winters for years. In his anniversary address, Zelensky decried Putin’s aerial attacks against military bases. He said pointedly that since Putin was not “capable of defeating Ukraine on the battlefield”, he was instead “fighting against apartment buildings and power plants”. He added: “And now Ukrainians are enduring the hardest winter in history. And terror almost every night. I do not know who else could withstand this without collapsing or wavering.” #trump#putin#zelensky#ukraine#war 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸