NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated in an interview with the BBC that Wołodymyr Zelanski “must find a way to rebuild the relationship with US President Donald Trump and his administration.” The day before, there was a sharp quarrel between Zelanski and Donald Trump and vice president of JD Vance.
Secretary General NATO Mark Rutte He announced on Saturday that he had handed over to the president Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski that he must find a way to rebuild the relationship with the US leader Donald Trump and its administration. Rutte told the British BBC station that he talked twice by phone with Zelanski after his Friday quarrel with Trump and US vice president JD Vance.
NATO Secretary General has stipulated that he could not reveal the details of these conversations. He only admitted that he appealed to Zelanski to fix his relationship with the American president and his government, and he described the meeting in the White House as “unfortunate”. – I told him: We must stay together: the USA, Ukraine and Europe to lead Ukraine to lasting peace Rutte said in the BBC.
The Secretary General of the Alliance added that He clearly told Zelanski that “it is necessary to respect what Trump has done so far for Ukraine” because It was during the first Republican administration that in 2019 that the US agreed to provide Ukraine with Javelin anti -tank missile systems, which helped Ukraine in the fight against Russian forces.
“We really have to give Trump a loan of trust,” Rutte added, expressing the belief that the American president also wants lasting peace in Ukraine.
He also emphasized that United States “They are a leader in NATO” and in his opinion Trump is involved in the benefit of the alliance.
A quarrel in the oval office
President of Ukraine He met on Friday with US President Donald Trump in the White House. Interview in an oval office about the prospects of the end of the war Russia Initially, it ran in a relatively good atmosphere against Ukraine, but it ended with an unprecedented quarrel, during which Trump and vice president of JD Vance raised in a raised voice stiffen Zelanski, accusing him of lack of gratitude and respect for the US.
During the meeting of Wołodymyr Zelanski, Donald Trump and JD Vance, there was a sharp exchange of sentences. Photo from February 28 PAP/EPA/JIM LO SCALZO/POOL
After the argument, Trump broke the conversations, and the Ukrainians were washed from the White House – the source of the CNN station passed. The planned joint press conference of Trump and Zelanski was dismissed, the mineral agreement was not expected.
Source of the main photo: PAP/EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET