Zelenskyy: Ukraine ‘Ready to Come to Negotiating Table’
“Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (that is how he prefers the spelling of his last name) wrote on X that he would return to the negotiating table.
I guess reality hit Zelenskyy hard after last week’s tense situation in the Oval Office. Here’s the whole post:
I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace.
None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.
We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same. Then we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal.
We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this.
Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive.
Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively.
I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace.
None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 4, 2025
Zelenskyy tried to own President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance last Friday in the Oval Office in front of the press.
Trump and Vance let Zelenskyy know that they won’t tolerate his attitude after America has given Ukraine $200 billion and military aid.
Zelenskyy is used to getting everything for nothing in return. That stops now.
I guess Zelenskyy is mad because Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin about a ceasefire. I bet he is also made because Trump has said the quiet parts out loud, confirming what Zelenskyy likely already knew: Ukraine won’t join NATO and probably not get back some of its land.
I will say it again. If the EU cared about Ukraine and wanted to take a real stand against Putin then it would have brought it into the EU years ago. The same goes with NATO.
But we know that the EU has spent more money on fossil fuels from Russia than it has sent Ukraine.
None of them have actually confronted Putin unlike Trump. It’s not like it would only be between Putin and Trump.
Trump literally invited Zelenskyy to D.C. to discuss and negotiate.
Zelenskyy only made matters worse when he said, “An agreement to end the war is still very, very far away, and no one has started all these steps yet.”
Dude, you literally had a starting point to end the war at your fingertips and you blew it!
Trump exploded, demanding the Defense Department pause and review all military aid to Ukraine.
If Zelenskyy doesn’t want peace then why bother sending Ukraine anything?
Peace in Ukraine means no martial law, which means elections and Zelenskyy’s term ends. Peace in Ukraine also means less to possible no money.
Putin invaded Ukraine during former President Barack Obama’s administration. He pushed more into Ukraine during former President Joe Biden’s administration.
As far as I can tell Putin didn’t do much more to Ukraine during Trump’s first administration.
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Annnnnd, he broke. 🙂
The Donald brings another one back to the negotiating table to sign a deal.
No doubt because of Zelensky’s intransigent behavior regarding peace and subsequent murmurs of a leadership change.
There is nothing to negotiate now, he either signs, or Russia can have their way with him.
Maybe someone with a little sense finally got through to the comic that Europe couldn’t do anything without the US as they admitted so the only course was a negotiation with Putin as unpalatable as it might be. Ukraine got used badly by the West for various reasons and is paying the price with what will most likely be 20% of it’s territory. Thank Obama and his holdovers in Brandon’s cabinet for bringing this about for their own enrichment.
I sincerely pray that Ukraine is finally left to its own devices and that Europe is forced to deal with the cost of their own defense and their imperialist fantasies of a broken Russia.
We should not be allies with the fools and fascists in western Europe; step back. Mr. Trump.
Could have done this four days ago.
The deal should be modified to give America 20% more than what was originally planned, for wasting our time. Also there should be no White House ceremony, he can just esign whatever documents are necessary.
https://youtu.be/ZsLyqEg4Tic?si=8RblV_fSLHiFvl9v
What a lot of people ignore just because they are opposed to EVERYTHING Trump is that the minerals deal with the Ukraine GUARANTEES American presence in the country if for nothing else other than to protect its investment (and getting a return on the billions Joementia gave away).
Could also be one of the reasons the EU was against peace at any price because with 50% of everything going back to America that then makes it a lot longer and a lot harder to get any of their money given in loans back.
If Ukraine wanted peace, they would have armed themselves against the invasion in the first place.
Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world.
Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize.
In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine’s security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.
The Ukrainians would not have been able to maintain the nuclear arsenal, anyway. Nukes are not liked canned food that just sits in the basement for years until you’re hungry for something.
The West was simultaneously reassuring Russia that since the Cold War was over with the defeat of the USSR and Warsaw Pact that the coalition of Nations created to oppose those defeated Cold War entities, who it must be stated, no longer existed NATO wouldn’t be adding members and certainly wouldn’t be going East to the borders of Russia.
The “Budapest Memorandum” wasn’t actually a treaty though, so it didn’t create any legal guarantees.
GOD forgive me I agree with JR this once …. and upvoted him….
he told the truth ….
He didn’t though. My understanding of the memorandum was that the US and Russia wouldn’t attack Ukraine and if Ukraine was attacked, they would assist via the UN security council. Which given that Russia has a veto…is meaningless
I thought the phrase “Ukraine made the decision” queered the otherwise objective history.
Have mercy on us, stop your idiocy. No one here is buying your drivel
That is true. Their were a whole lot of mistakes made along the way with the primary one being the Ukrainians believed the neo Cons and Democrats cared about them above getting rich on their back.
JR ripped this quote from an NPR article. Not only does he post fake quotes, but he also plagiarizes.
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion
Junior, an alleged lawyer, copied and pasted text from an NPR article without attribution, thereby committing plagiarism?
Say it ain’t so!
So Junior. What year were you disbarred?
Sorry. We ran out of booster seats. Call back next month.
Don’t come back
Don’t trust the perverted worm
After 3 rejections by the despicable Ukrainians I would hope that the old deal is off the table. If there is going to be a deal with Ukraine (if!) then the terms have to be seriously adjusted. We need lots more and we need extra assurances from Ukraine, because the one thing that Zelenskyyiyiy made painfully clear is that Ukraine is totally untrustworthy and looking to stab us in the back at the first opportunity. Ukraine is dangerous to us and to the world. No one forget that Ukraine tried to drag America into a shooting war with Russia when one of their errant missiles hit Poland and Zelenskyyiy lied and said that it was a Russian missile and demanded that NATO start bombing Russia. DO NOT FORGET THAT. That is what Ukraine is really about and that is how much they really care if the world goes up in nuclear war.
New deal. If it was 50/50 it has to be 70/30 America, now, at least. At least. And let Ukraine (and the Euroturds) sit and ponder what they’ve done for a week or two …
Trump has to increase the cost of the deal. Such behavior by Z has to be costly to prevent histrionics from the next group. Z wouldn’t have made it pass first auditions for “The Apprentice”.
I think it would be better to invest in our capital in developing our own rare earth deposits or maybe Greenland.
I also think the Russian rare Earth deal is worth looking into.
It’s pretty clear that Ukraine is more corrupt than Russia.
It I’ll now be 2 shrubberies. Ni.
We are no longer the Americans who say “Ni!”
We are now the Americans who say “Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo MAGA!”
Empty words by a tiny man.
This is the THIRD TIME that Zelensky has told them they had a deal and PUBLICLY run to the media and the EU to try and bulldoze Trump.
I think Trump is just done with him at this point. Forget negotiating peace in good faith, Zelensky refuses to even start negotiating at all!
Ask yourself why that is. It’s obvious why.
The EU is terrified that if they actually sit down with Russia that Russian requirements for peace are going to be reasonable and people will want them to take it. If they thought Russia was going to make ridiculous Palestinian level demands, they’d rush to the negotiating table, get their demands on the record, and use those as an excuse to keep fighting. SEE, SEE?!??!! We want to make peace but we can’t agree to this!
Almost certainly Russia’s demands for a peace deal are going to boil down to 2 things:
1) No Ukraine in NATO
2) We keep territory that we’ve taken and you’re not capable of taking back
I think Putin would probably even be willing to give some of the territory back (not the part with resources he wants of course).
So they sent Zelensky in to spew about ‘security guarantees’ (a phrase both Democrats and the EU were spewing around BEFORE the meeting), to blow things up and try to make Trump look like the problem.
Instead they only confirmed to Americans that this farce of a forever war is not our business.
Zelensky isn’t throwing a tantrum that Trump is trying to force him to take a bad deal. He’s throwing a tantrum that Trump wants him to find out what the deal is AT ALL, because the EU is terrified they’ll be forced to take a reasonable deal.
Actually…there is nothing stopping Europe from bringing the Ukraine in to the EU now.
However, given how poorly the EU has been in protecting its own borders, let alone the Ukraines, how much of a deterrent membership will be to Russia is debatable!
It might be a pretty good deterrent. I wouldn’t touch anything in the EU. Not without gloves on, at least.
Trump Derangement Syndrome:
Believing anything Trump does is evil, and any statement Trump makes is a lie, even if he were to say the sky is blue. (“Trump said the sky is blue? That’s a LIE.”)
Trump Sycophancy Syndrome:
Believing anything Trump does is in our interest as a country, and denying the possibility, no matter how strong the evidence to the contrary (i.e., the “duck test”), that Trump is taking the side of our long-time adversaries. Pasting on after-the-fact explanations (example: “he’s just playing 4d chess”) to foreign policy actions which ordinarily would get you laughed off the public stage (parroting Russian propaganda about who started a war, for example). Being so far right you’re left – left in the sense that you are supporting the reassembly of the Soviet Union. Adjusting one’s way of thinking to justify anything Trump does, even if it involves jettisoning 8 decades of world leadership as if it were a food delivery mix-up. (“Dude, you literally had a starting point to end the war at your fingertips and you blew it!” – Yes, indeed. It’s called surrendering.) Enjoying the entertainment, because that’s all that matters.
The latter is strong on this site’s viewership.
When does Ukraine secure this victory over Russia you predict since ‘surrender’ aka an agreement to stop the conflict is off the table?
LOL.
We’ve got Chris Murphy posting on here!
Or maybe you’re just one of Zelenskyyiy’s gay midget lovers.
Could just be one and the same …
You know you’re dealing with a powerhouse intellect when they start calling you gay.
“Surrendering” is what nations do when they realize they’ve lost. Germany and Japan both had to be smashed to bits because the Allies (Churchill, actually) demanded “unconditional surrender,” to which most nations are reluctant to accede, regardless of their circumstances. (It took two atomic bombs to convince the Japanese).
Ukraine isn’t going to win this war. It can’t push Russia out, it can’t keep Russia out. Russia will not surrender to Ukraine. So either Ukraine surrenders now, or it surrenders later when it is in much more dire straights. Which would you choose? Fight to the last Ukrainian? Or just until the country is a complete shambles? Both?
Niceties such as declaring the new border merely an “armistice line” (which does not prejudice the territorial claims of either nation) might be used instead of a settled, legal border at this time. This would kick the can down the road to a time when new regimes in either or both countries are truly ready to negotiate, or until the next war. A lasting armistice would at least allow Ukraine to prepare for the next Russian invasion. But there won’t be a “next invasion” if Ukraine is ground into the dust over time in the current war.
Apparently, the Ukrainian parliament now supports the “reassembly of the Soviet Union”:
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1896824271197880600
That’s a pretty good ratio you’ve got going there, dingus.
I’m betting it will hit the upper 20’s before it’s over.
If you don’t like the “Trump Sycophancy Syndrome” you think you’ve detected on this site, you’re free to find the door and let yourself out.
Just don’t slam it when you leave.
Oh gosh, I’ve been down voted by so many people on this thread. I didn’t expect it, and I’m so upset! Allow me to apologize for puncturing your bubble with another perspective. But you know, I think I’ll stick around for awhile. People who care about being ratioed are the problem, and that goes for all sides.
The best way to deter the Russian Bear is with a strong military. As for the past we have this quote:
Apparently Ukraine had few options and no guarantees. Please see this link
The wretched Obama cabal’s (Rice, et al.) and fellow Dhimmi-crats’ brazen machinations to encourage Zelensky’s tantrum and to undermine #47’s diplomacy, are simply contemptible. But, the vile and subversive Dhimmi-crat fifth columnists have always behaved thusly, when a Republican president is occupying the White House.
Why are we doing this deal? Yes I know we need/want the minerals, but it’s going to put a US non-military presence in Ukraine that will serve as a trip wire against further Russian aggression. This could draw us into a future war at a time and place not of our choosing.
Yes, for that reason I can’t endorse it. I imagine the theory is that the United State’s interests and investment in Ukraine will suffice to prevent future Russian aggression. This can’t be guaranteed, but may be realistic so long as the US maintains its military might such that it capable of actually answering a threat. But maybe the plan is to take the security for as long as it lasts, and then skedaddle if the Russians invade again.
It would help if the US left NATO. Then Ukraine wouldn’t have a close association with a NATO member, at least. This might make Russia happier about, or at least less disturbed by, by a US presence in Ukraine.
Also, I trust Germany, France, and the UK less than I trust the US. I think their troops on the ground (enforcing the peace!) would not be acceptable to Russia and I wouldn’t blame them.
Trump should tell Zyy to fax his signed copy of the deal. No more meeting with Trump wearing your gym suit.
Nope
No deal
Stick a fork in it
Z says they’re “… ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format.”
Just for shits and grins, Trump should send him a DocuSign.
This is so disappointing
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/trump-zelensky-set-sign-historic-minerals-deal-announcement/
Yeah … I don’t like it – not one bit – but I’ll give Trump the latitude to get this off his plate and move on to more important things.
“UPDATE: Sources at the White House saying this Reuters report is not true.”
The fog of bullshit is thick and speedy.
Che Guevarskyyyyy cost me fifty bucks , the little toad.
I bet that he would hold out two weeks before the grovelling began