{"id":1282052,"date":"2025-08-18T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/truce-in-ukraine-not-needed-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:05:00","slug":"truce-in-ukraine-not-needed-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/truce-in-ukraine-not-needed-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Truce in Ukraine not needed \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump said that achieving a ceasefire is not mandatory, he seeks to conclude a peace agreement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said this during a joint conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with journalists at the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there should be a ceasefire. If you look at the six wars that I&#8217;ve ended this year, they were wars ended, not ceasefires. That would be nice, but I also have a strategic understanding,&#8221; Trump assured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, during the ceasefire, the parties will be able to accumulate strength and resume the hot phase of the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he explained that a ceasefire also has its advantages, in particular, under such conditions the killings will stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI would like them to stop. But strategically for one of the parties, it could be a disadvantage,\u201d the American president added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, he noted that the US does not support Ukraine&#8217;s accession to NATO, but Washington will provide Kyiv with &#8220;clear&#8221; security guarantees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall, on the evening of August 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-bilomu-domi-rozpochalasia-zustrich-zelenskoho-i-trampa-pershi-podrobytsi\/\">, a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and American leader Donald Trump began at the White House<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> As you know, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-anonsuvav-telefonnyy-dzvinok-do-putina\/\">Trump announced a phone call to Putin<\/a> , during which he will report on the results of the meeting with Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that before meeting with Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shcho-obhovoriuvaly-zelenskyy-i-ievropeyski-lidery-pered-zustrichchiu-z-trampom-ukrainskyy-prezydent-rozkryv-detali\/\">, he coordinated positions with European leaders and the NATO Secretary General<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said that achieving a ceasefire is not mandatory, he seeks to conclude a peace agreement. He said this during a joint conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with journalists at the White House. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there should be a ceasefire. If you look at the six wars that I&#8217;ve ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1264231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1282052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}