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How Trump-Zelensky meeting turned acrimonious over demands for territorial concessions
CNN ^ | October 20, 2025 | Kevin Liptak

Posted on 10/20/2025 5:03:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

President Donald Trump’s working lunch with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday turned acrimonious when the US leader insisted Ukraine make territorial concessions to Russia to end the war, according to European officials briefed on the meeting.

Trump, who would later endorse a freeze in current battle lines as part of a peace settlement, grew frustrated and raised his voice multiple times, the officials said.

The episode was the latest chapter in the fraught relationship between the two men, and amounted to another shift in Trump’s approach to how the war will be settled.

Last month, after meeting Zelensky in New York, Trump claimed Ukraine might be able to regain all its territory lost to Russia. But now Trump is preparing for another high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, this time in Budapest.

It was after a call with the Russian leader on the eve of the Zelensky meeting that Trump again insisted Kyiv must give up swaths of land for the conflict to end.

Trump shrugged off the apparent reversal on Monday.

“I never said they would win it. I said they could win,” he said of Ukraine at the White House, where he was meeting the prime minister of Australia. “Anything could happen. You know, war is a very strange thing. A lot of bad things happen. A lot of good things happen.”

He said he still believed Ukraine could win, but that he didn’t think it would.

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TOPICS: Ukraine
KEYWORDS: beggarofkiev; bidencrimefamily; bidenswar; burisma; fakenews; greengrifter; hunterbiden; littledictator; proxywar; ukraine; welfarewar; zestinky

1 posted on 10/20/2025 5:03:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“… according to European officials briefed on the meeting.

Trump,…. grew frustrated and raised his voice multiple times, the officials said…..”
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Ahhhh … which “European officials”? and “briefed” by whom? Typical CNN crap!


2 posted on 10/20/2025 5:09:58 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Biased media.
What “territorial concessions”?

Ukraine can’t concede territory it already lost. It would not be conceding anything, just ending the war.


3 posted on 10/20/2025 5:20:24 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: MinorityRepublican

If Mexico invaded Texas and occupied Brownsville Harlingen and McAllen would we want to concede and give them to Mexico?


4 posted on 10/20/2025 5:25:08 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: tflabo

Mexican bandit Pancho Villa tried that.

George Patton rode in , shot two of his gang, strapped them to the front of his car and rode back into the US.

Time to start playing “Cowboys and Mexicans’’.


5 posted on 10/20/2025 5:29:00 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

6 posted on 10/20/2025 6:23:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Way past time to deal with the corrupted little man. Trump should have withdrawn all money, weapons and intelligence long ago.

Good thing Trump, Orban and Vlad are planning a meeting in Hungary. Leaving the little St Z and EU out of Peace negotiations....maybe they decide how to carve up Ukraine, giving Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia their historic territory back.....the West and NATO did that to Yugoslavia....why not?


7 posted on 10/20/2025 6:34:31 PM PDT by delta7
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ukraine should tell Trump, they will gladly hand over the land Russia has taken, right after the US hands over Alaska.

Because asking them that is just as outrageous.


8 posted on 10/20/2025 7:01:48 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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Then let Ukraine handle this alone. Trump could tell them to piss up a rope.


9 posted on 10/20/2025 7:31:02 PM PDT by MagaMatt (Sapere aude.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
How would "European officials" know what happened when they weren't present?

There is no reason to believe a source that wasn't present at the meeting.

But, if Trump didn't say what is claimed, he should have.

10 posted on 10/20/2025 7:50:13 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is just more theatre to throw the rabid media off, like the feud between Trump and Musk was.


11 posted on 10/21/2025 4:04:10 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

47 when back to advocating for a surrender on Russia’s terms - any halting would be a huge win for Russia.

But every one knows that Putin will not stop, no mater what; he’s on a mission to restore the old USSR, to include surrounding territory buffer zones.


12 posted on 10/21/2025 5:32:33 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MinorityRepublican

President Trump has no right to insist on Ukrainian surrender of territory.


13 posted on 10/21/2025 5:34:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Beggars can’t be choosers.


14 posted on 10/21/2025 5:48:31 AM PDT by Mashood
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MSM Trying To Derail Peace in Russia-Ukraine War, Reporting Trump Told Zelensky ‘Accept Putin’s Terms or Be Destroyed


Reporter: ‘During that meeting, did you tell him he needed to cede all of the Donbass region to Russia?’

Donald J. Trump: ‘No, we never discussed it. We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are, the battle lines. You have a battle line right now.

The rest is very tough to negotiate. If you’re going to say you take this, we take that. You know, there’s so many different permutations.

So, what I say is they should stop right now at the battle lines, go home, stop killing people and be done. What do you think should happen with the Donbass region? Let it be cut the way it is. It’s cut up right now.

I think 78 percent of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is right now. They can they can negotiate something later on down the line.

But I said cut and stop at the battle. I go home, stop fighting, stop killing people’.”



15 posted on 10/21/2025 6:01:39 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: House Atreides

CNN and Einancial Times lie. It didn’t happen.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin/2025/10/20/id/1231111/
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if they want to fight , then what ya gonna do?
I hope Trump can end this proxy war sooner than later
just not currently optimistic


16 posted on 10/21/2025 7:55:09 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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