Ukraine seeks to redirect relationship with Trump to save US aid
Donald Trump keeps up the pressure and demands Zelenskiy agree to a cease-fire now or risk “fighting alone”
Friday’s debacle in the Oval Office has opened a crisis that is far from over. Ukraine is trying to salvage the badly damaged relationship with the United States, while Donald Trump’s Administration keeps up the pressure, still outraged by what it considers to have been Volodymir Zelenskiy’s petulant attitude for trying to correct the pro-Russian views of the Republican and his vice president, J. D. Vance. It is an all-or-nothing gamble. In his rebuke to the Ukrainian on Friday, the American president made it clear: either Kyiv accepts a cease-fire —equivalent, under these conditions, to a surrender— or it will have to “fight alone” and risk disappearing as a country. Both know that any help that may come from Europe will not be enough.
