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After a seemingly amicable meeting with President Donald Trump and senior members of his cabinet last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took shots at his U.S. counterpart during an interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on Sunday.
Trump and Putin met for a historic summit in Anchorage, Alaska on August 15, which was the first meeting between leaders of the two nuclear powers since the war in wider Ukraine began in 2022. The two sides discussed ways to end the conflict in what was Putin’s first trip to the United States since 2007.
An agreement has not yet been reached, though President Trump has stated that dialogue is ongoing. The Trump Administration has not ruled out additional penalties on the Kremlin in order to bring them to the table, however, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that a massive sanctions package is being prepared if needed during an appearance on “Meet The Press” Sunday.
Just hours after the meeting, Trump spoke with Zelensky for hours and immediately set up a meeting between the two sides, which was also attended by leading European allies. The meeting appeared to go over well, a massive turnaround from an earlier meeting that ended in disaster this year when Zelensky was booted from the White House for claiming U.S. security will be threatened if funding of Ukraine’s war effort does not continue.
Both leaders described the second meeting in positive terms, though Zelensky appeared to take a shot at President Trump while speaking with Raddatz on Sunday. “It’s a pity that Ukraine was not there, because I think President Trump gave Putin what he wanted,” the Ukrainian president said, accusing President Trump of giving Putin a propaganda victory.
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