By Suleiman Umaru
The last may not have been heard about the closed- door meeting between President Trump of the North American country of the United States, US, VP. JD Cance, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State and Envoy Steve Witkoff, Coordinating Russia and Ukraine, currently at war.
The two former east European countries had been been at war since 2022, over the EU, planned expansion to Ukraine, to open a military base at the border with Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plan to join NATO, to drag the Organization into the war . President Vladimir Putin’s concern was that nether the EU, will allow Russia open a military base in Poland, Finland or the US allow it open a military base in Canada or Cuba, but wants to do it in neighbouring Ukraine to spy on his home country , pushing him” to the wall”,
The Ukrainian Leader who had the invitation of President Donald Trump for talks on how to end the war with Russia as a follow up to the August 15, 2025, Summit with Putin, in Alaska, may have come fully prepared with the European, EU and NATO, Leaders to face the American President .
President Trump who met the Ukrainian Leader without the powerful European Leaders who had accompanied him like Merz, Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France, Alexander Stubb, Finland, Karol Nawroki of Poland, and multiple Prime Ministers, Keir Starmer, Britain, and Giogia Meloni, of Italy, including Mark Rutte, Secretary General, EU and, others may have forced him to have a rethink in his earlier decision not to give out the regions captured by Russia in the ongoing war to it or refuse to sign a permanent cease fire with Vladimir Putin and stop insisting on temporary ceasefire
The meeting was said so tense that it was said to have ended up in a shouting match’’ as President Trump who could not take it from Zelenskyy had reminded that the war is devastating Ukraine as the Russian drones and cruise missiles are killing the people in their hundreds and destroying basic infrastructural facilities in the country every.
there are indications that no fewer than 1.7 million , Ukrainian soldiers have killed and missing between 2022 and now and more are still to be killed as the war drags on. The figure is not without the civilian population that had been killed that runs into hundreds.
Zelenskyy, described as a puppet of the West by Putin and addressed as’’ a stupid Ukrainian President’’ by Trump, was said to have told the US, leadership that ‘’it is impossible to accept ceasefire, let alone grant the long list of demands of the Russian Leader ‘’under the pressure of weapons’’.
He may have alluded to the bombs still dropping at Donestk, Kherson, Luhansk, Maykolayiv, Zaporizhzhya and Sevastopol, regions like rain while the ground troops fortify their front line positions in the captured regions. The Ukrainian Leader insistence on continuing the war with Russian was a fallout of the decision reached with the European Leaders, EU, and NATO, officials in Berlin at the August 13, 2025,meeting , as they wee said to have promised to bankroll the war with or without the US, support.
VP Vance, had expected Zelensky, to appreciate the Diplomatic efforts of President Trump to end the over three years war with Russia, which had devastated the nation instead of being” disrespectful to him”.An aggrieved President Trump, may have dampened the enthusiasm of Zelenskyy, in continuing the war when he declared at the August 18, 025, closed door meeting, in the oval office that he is’’ toying with WW3 and Gambling with the lives of millions of Ukrainians’’, if he insists on continuing the war with Russia
He was said to have sounded it loud and clear to the hearing of Zelensky, whose country cannot stand Russia in the battle field under normal circumstances that without US supply of weapons and funding of the Ukrainian Army, Russia would have ”overrun the country within two weeks of its invasion” in 2022. Trump had alluded to the to supply of advanced weapons, missiles and $350 billion spent by the Administrations of former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden to bankroll the Ukraine war.
He was said to have told him clearly that the game is over that he should forget about the 20% Ukraine land lost to Russia and quickly make a deal with Putin as Ukraine cannot defeat Russia. He may have shocked Zelenskyy and the EU, when told him in no uncertain terms that he will never send American Soldiers to Ukraine to fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers against Russia, who have a massive Army and limitless resources and weapons to fight the war.
In apparent response to President Trump’s remarks that Ukraine, which many believes is endowed with rich mineral resources like Uranium, Lithium , cobalt, Platinum and other rare earth elements would have been annexed by Russian in two weeks of the war, Zelenskyy, had said that the two weeks given by Trump was too much , that he should have limited it to mere three days as it does not have the weapons to fight the war , let the funds to prosecute the war.
The US,Government spends a whopping sum of 800 billion on the country’s military and purchase of weapons annually compared to the US$1.2 trillion, budgeted for the military by the entire Europe , to beef up its security and its military bases in different parts of Europe and the the African Continent, meaning that Europe is no match to Russia if the war escalates into WW3.
Zelenskyy, who would not want to be discouraged by Trump, not to continue the war with Russia with the backing of EU and NATO, Forces, could beat his chest that Ukraine is not a pushover as he has been alone fighting Russia , a very powerful nation, which have the weapons and manpower, over the last three years without shaking.
President Putin, who was said to have warned Merz, Macron and Starmer and other European Leaders, following Zelensky around because of the mining uranium, Lithium and other rare mineral elements in the country that if they allow the war with Ukraine to escalate, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Rome, and London would be hard hit as Russia would not hesitate to use Nuclear Weapons to defend its territories and the entire world would the price. He was said to have sounded it loud and clear that the war would be fought in Europe and will never come too close to the US, as ”it is protected by the oceans”.
Given Trump’s determination to end the Russia-Ukraine war to save lives and the insistence of Putin that Zelensky must accede to all his country’s demand or be prepared to to lose the entire Country to Russia may have put the American President off in their recent discussion.
He had expressed his ”disappointment” with Putin, that after spending six hours with him in Alaska to secure a ceasefire in the ongoing war with Ukraine, was a achieved and he still refused to stop, may have forced him to tell the Russian Leader to do his worst: Go ahead and kill the people .
The Russian Leader who is not ready to continue the war had given his words that ”if the EU, NATO, will stop supplying weapons and giving funds to Zelenskyy to sustain the war”, he will end the war. Putin may have surprised the international Community as he had invited Zelenskyy to Moscow for Talks to end the war without the involvement of US. Zelenskyy, was said to have accepted the invitation , in order to have a one-on-on discussion with the neighbouring Russian President . He was said to have told close associates who are bothered about his life that he has ”a lot to tell Putin”. This is bad news for Trump, Starmer, Macron, Rutte and other EU, Leaders as Zelenskyy is ready to spill the bean.
