US wants Russia and Ukraine to end war by June, says Zelensky

BBC News ^ | 2/7/2026 | Kathryn Armstrong

[MinorityRepublican]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the US wants the war with Russia to end by June, adding that both sides had been invited to the US for talks next week.

"America proposed for the first time that the two negotiating teams – Ukraine and Russia – meet in the United States of America, probably in Miami, in a week. We confirmed our participation," he said.

There was no immediate comment from Washington or Moscow, but US President Donald Trump has been pushing for an end for the conflict since he took office again more than a year ago.

Meanwhile, Russia has continued its attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure - causing further widespread blackouts during freezing conditions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the US wants the war with Russia to end by June, adding that both sides had been invited to the US for talks next week.

"America proposed for the first time that the two negotiating teams – Ukraine and Russia – meet in the United States of America, probably in Miami, in a week. We confirmed our participation," he said.

There was no immediate comment from Washington or Moscow, but US President Donald Trump has been pushing for an end for the conflict since he took office again more than a year ago.

Meanwhile, Russia has continued its attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure - causing further widespread blackouts during freezing conditions.

[Pontiac]

Cut US arms shipment to Ukraine and the war will end by next week.

Europe will not sustain Ukraine’s military on their own.

[McGruff]

Ukraine won’t last until June.

[Mount Athos]

Hasn’t the USA spent billions to slay as many Russians as possible?
And right now we are actively trying to cripple them economically?

How is the USA in any position to play mediator?
It makes no sense at all.

[MinorityRepublican]

Asked AI.

Without new U.S. arms (beyond existing Patriots) and with Starlink cut off, Ukraine could likely fight for only about 3–6 months before major territorial loss or collapse, because European support cannot scale fast enough given budget rigidity, limited industrial capacity, and political priorities like entitlement spending and net-zero policies.

[MinorityRepublican]

How is the USA in any position to play mediator? It makes no sense at all.

Trump opposed deep operational cooperation, so by 2026 the close 2022-style joint war planning between U.S. and Ukrainian generals is largely gone, replaced by limited, arms-length military contacts focused on deconfliction and basic coordination.

[Gen.Blather]

“Cut US arms shipment to Ukraine and the war will end by next week.”

While this might be correct the picture of what that new policy would look like gets very bad very quickly once you look behind the scenes. I spent roughly thirty years in the military weapons business. The business is a huge interconnectedness of supply chains and contracts. A sudden policy decision to do this or that would reflect into dozens or hundreds of primary contracts and thousands upon thousands of lower-level supply chain contracts. Decisions may seem simple at the top, but the details matter. Every contract will have a penalty clause. It is almost always cheaper and better just to continue until they naturally end and not re-up them. But even that has follow-on consequences that will reflect on to readiness and posture far into the future.

How many companies have made investments based on a contract will go out of business? It matters not that they got paid for not working. If they aren’t producing anything they’ll close and sell the facility they would have used.

We in the public get tired of a train wreck that just goes on and on and want it to stop. But sometimes just stopping can’t be done without creating a different train wreck. The people we pay to lead us have to navigate some difficult paths.

[Mount Athos]

The USA put huge effort into crippling Russia economically, getting India and others to stop buying Russian oil.

How can we mediate this conflict when we are doing our best to cripple Russia?

[MinorityRepublican]

If Putin decides to agree to end the war in Ukraine, he gets to sell Russian oil again and sanctions will be removed so Russia can trade again with the West.

[Mount Athos]

Russia won’t trust any agreement after Minsk II, where Hollande and Merkel openly admitted later that from the west it was never meant to be implemented in good faith.

[Pontiac]

It is almost always cheaper and better just to continue until they naturally end and not re-up them.

the financial cost to the US is of secondary importance to me.

My primary concern is the Human cost. I want the death and destruction in Ukraine and Russia to end.

One of the main reasons I voted for Trump was is vow to end the Ukraine war rapidly. I have no idea why he has not simply end support for Ukraine. I am sure their are good reasons. I don't believe they are good enough.

[MinorityRepublican]

Apparently Putin will be satisfied after he gets the Donbass.

Trump's position is that Putin should get it.

Otherwise, Ukraine is not capable of holding on to the Donbass without American arms.

So Trump has a point. If he wants the war to be over, then it's time to wrap things up.

The EU is not capable of filling the void if we want to get out of this war.

The EU had four years to build up their Military-Industrial Complex.

[aynrandfreak]

Democrats are pushing Zelenskyy to stall until the midterms (Fauci did the same with stalling the “vax”)

[proxy_user]

Starlink has just been cut off to the Russian army, and they are fighting blind. The Ukraine army is still using Starlink, and will continue to do so.

Why is this? Starlink cut off access to unauthorized devices who weren’t paying for the service. Guess who wasn’t paying?

[Petrosius]

Russia won’t trust any agreement after Minsk II, where Hollande and Merkel openly admitted later that from the west it was never meant to be implemented in good faith.

That is an outright lie. In addition, you gloss over the fact that Russia violated Minsk II as it did Minsk I.

[libertylover]

Thanks for the insight.

[MinorityRepublican]

The Russians have the advantage if the Ukrainians didn’t have Starlink and Patriot batteries.

[PIF]

US wants Russia and Ukraine to end war by June, says Zelensky

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Zelensky, “June of 2026”

Putin, “June of 2036”

[gloryblaze]

Starlink has just been cut off to the Russian army, and they are fighting blind. ...

My God, I never knew it was on for the invaders EVER!

About dang time.

[nathanbedford]

In the darkest days of 1940, when Germany had overrun France and Britain stood alone against the longest odds, Winston Churchill had his reasons to continue the war.

Lord Halifax and former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did not agree and wanted to cut a deal and end the war, and end Churchill into the bargain.

In America at that time the following organizations and people opposed aiding Britain: America First Committee; Father Coughlin; German-American Bund; various peace pacifist organizations; Charles A LLindbergh; Henry Ford; Joseph P Kennedy Sr; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Norman Thomas. Many others as well.

Sentiment radically changed in America after Pearl Harbor and after Germany unilaterally declared war on America. Apparently, the universal consensus in America came to believe that liberty was worth fighting for.

Funny how sentiment changed. Incidentally, the one thing no one here has bothered to comment on is the sentiment for continuing the war in Ukraine. It is their war, as the recent polls show, and they are ready to soldier on and are doing so with stunning bravery.

We should acknowledge that it is, after all, their war, but we inveigled them to fight it, we funded it, our Congress passed laws authorizing all of it, our president swore internal support for it, we presumed to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine; then we extracted mineral rights from Ukraine; and now we make a profit on every arm we sell that is destined for Ukraine.

We used to sound like Winston Churchill, now we sound like the America First Committee.

Maybe Ukraine, like embattled Britain under Churchill in 1940, thinks that freedom is worth fighting for. Anyway, it is their choice to make, not ours-even less our choice since we induced them to fight this war and then abandoned them.