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Zelensky wants to ‘work directly’ with Trump on ending Ukraine’s war with Russia
CNN via Yahoo ^ | November 30th, 2024 | Hanna Ziady, CNN

Posted on 11/30/2024 1:08:53 PM PST by Mariner

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he wants to work “directly” with US President-elect Donald Trump and is open to his ideas, highlighting Kyiv’s eagerness to keep its most important ally onside as Russia intensifies its attacks.

“Of course we will work with Trump. I want to work with him directly,” Zelensky said in an interview with Sky News released Friday, adding that he did not want people around Trump to “destroy” their communication. “I want to share with him ideas and I want to hear from him his ideas,” he added.

The United States is the single largest provider of military assistance to Ukraine and Kyiv is keenly aware that it needs to stay on Trump’s good side to secure future support. According to the US Department of State, the government has contributed $64.1 billion to Ukraine’s war effort since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Zelensky characterized his conversations with Trump during a visit to New York in September as “warm, good, constructive.” He said the discussions were an “important first step,” but that more detailed talks would be needed “until we will have a real plan where Ukraine is strong.”

Zelensky noted that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, would travel to the US as soon as possible for meetings, including with Trump’s pick to be special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg.

Kellogg favors a ceasefire and peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv, which would include security guarantees for Ukraine to protect against future Russian invasions.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beggarofkiev; zestinky
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The idea of the US as security guarantor for Ukraine is a non starter in DC and Moscow.
1 posted on 11/30/2024 1:08:53 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

“Here’s where the border will be and no, you will not become a NATO member”


2 posted on 11/30/2024 1:12:07 PM PST by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: Mariner

I sure hope Trump does remember this Harris campaigner.


3 posted on 11/30/2024 1:14:03 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Mariner

Good idea.

Kind of obvious that’s what to do.

Putin will have to, too.

He gives up the following to the US:

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Kamchatka Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Magadan Oblast
Primorsky Krai
Sakhalin Oblast

Russian Fed gets slivers of Russian Ukraine in exchange and he gets to live.

Ukraine is Ukraine, free and independent.


4 posted on 11/30/2024 1:14:14 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Zelensky wants whatever lines his pockets with cash. I don’t think Trump is in the mood to dish out more money to anyone in Ukraine, including Zelensky. Hopefully, someone in his administration will tracked down all of the US politicians and their family members who benefited from the money laundering operation that is known as Ukraine.


5 posted on 11/30/2024 1:15:29 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: dynachrome

Send that to Trump!!

Though I’m guessing his decision will be somewhere along those lines.

What a wasteful war and what a shame.

Never would have happend if Trump wasn’t cheated.

But NATO and NEOCONS and dems LOVE wars...especially when the profits and kickbacks are enormous.


6 posted on 11/30/2024 1:23:15 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Mariner

The money train from Biden is over and transferred to a Swiss bank.


7 posted on 11/30/2024 1:23:49 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Mariner

Hatch Act warnings have been going off in my head for more than a week.


8 posted on 11/30/2024 1:29:58 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Mariner

Trump isn’t in office yet.


9 posted on 11/30/2024 1:31:27 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Mariner

Z is just trying to save his neck at this point. Meanwhile, Russia took another 39 square kilometers yesterday and is headed for a railroad that will severely hamper Ukraine’s troop and armor etc. movement if taken.


10 posted on 11/30/2024 1:34:08 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Mariner

Sounds like the WEF EU Globo Homos are going to be back buying their energy from Putin’s regime ASAP. Too bad for Americans with those energy good jobs now that will be gone. Hopefully, they’ll understand that you have to break a few eggs to Make Russia Great Again.


11 posted on 11/30/2024 1:36:15 PM PST by lodi90
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Russia must have a guarantee of safe sea routes through the Crimea or or it will be a return to the current status quo.


12 posted on 11/30/2024 1:36:33 PM PST by exPBRrat
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he wants to work “directly” with US President-elect Donald Trump and is open to his ideas,

It is an admission he did NOT work directly (or at all) with the vegetable Joe Biden, but rather "the DC Blob's" CIA/State Dept/DoD apparatchiks from Blinken and Sullivan, on down.

13 posted on 11/30/2024 1:44:05 PM PST by PGR88
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Trump told him “you’re either on the bus or under the bus”.


14 posted on 11/30/2024 1:46:57 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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I remember that Trump ended the wars but somehow the dem commies are able to start them right back up.


15 posted on 11/30/2024 1:55:41 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: Mariner

Little bitch, please! Zelensky would do well to beg for an bolt hole in Latin America to hide in.


16 posted on 11/30/2024 1:56:16 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: ifinnegan

Dumb as a bag of hammers and as high as a kite from hopium.


17 posted on 11/30/2024 1:57:22 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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I doubt Mr. Trump will forget that he was impeached over a simple phone call to Ukraine...


18 posted on 11/30/2024 2:01:09 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: rottweiller_inc
--- "I sure hope Trump does remember this Harris campaigner."

Ukrainian President Zelensky Openly Campaigns for Dems in Battleground State, Harris Surrogate PA Governor Josh Shapiro Joins Him to Sign Bombs Gateway Pundit, 23 September 2024

Trump vs Ukraine's president: 'Zelensky is greatest salesman, wants Democrats to win' YNET, 24 September 2024.

Ukraine President Zelensky Campaigns for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania Conservative Treehouse, 23 September 2024.

Trump says Ukraine's Zelensky wants Democrats to win U.S. presidential election Reuters via Globe and Mail, 24 September 2024.

Zelensky Attacks Trump and Vance to U.S. Media, Tours Ammo Plant in PA at Taxpayers’ Expense Breitbart, 23 September 2024.

Zelensky Trashes Trump and Vance, Signs Artillery Shells in PA Legal Insurrection, 23 September 2024.

Josh Shapiro and Zelensky visit artillery shell plant in Scranton, PA X/Twitter video clip, Jack Posobiec, 23 September 2024.


19 posted on 11/30/2024 2:12:31 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Mariner

Zelenskyy knows his meal ticket is about to end so now he wants to end this “war”


20 posted on 11/30/2024 2:12:40 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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