{"id":7604,"date":"2025-12-30T08:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:41:35","slug":"zelenskyy-assessed-the-role-of-the-us-in-the-war-and-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/main-news\/zelenskyy-assessed-the-role-of-the-us-in-the-war-and-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy assesses the US role in war and peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"546\">Zelenskyy: without the US, Ukraine will not be able to defend the sky and win the war<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"546\">President of Ukraine <strong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"434\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/span><\/span><\/strong> said. <strong data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"545\">Without US support, Ukraine will not be able to effectively defend its skies and win the war against Russia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"625\">\n<p data-start=\"550\" data-end=\"625\">\u00abAir defence, ammunition, artillery are critically important,\u00bb Zelenskyy stressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"653\">On meeting with Trump<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"775\">The President emphasised that <strong data-start=\"680\" data-end=\"774\">meeting with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span> was extremely important and productive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"918\">\n<p data-start=\"779\" data-end=\"918\">\u00abI am grateful to President Trump. Our teams worked hard. Mar-a-Lago may have had a different mood, but the result was there,\u00bb Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 data-start=\"920\" data-end=\"958\">The territorial issue and the referendum<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"1118\">The Head of State emphasised that <strong data-start=\"988\" data-end=\"1038\">Ukraine cannot simply abandon its territories<\/strong>, because people live there, the army is there, there are hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1120\" data-end=\"1262\">One of the <strong data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1157\">hypothetical trade-offs<\/strong> Zelensky called <strong data-start=\"1176\" data-end=\"1244\">creation of a free economic zone with mutual withdrawal of troops<\/strong>, However, he stressed:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1349\">\n<p data-start=\"1266\" data-end=\"1349\">\u00abEven this option can only be approved or rejected by the people of Ukraine.\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1523\">He emphasised that <strong data-start=\"1370\" data-end=\"1419\">Ukraine's withdrawal from Donbas is the worst-case scenario<\/strong> and has no public support, and a referendum under such conditions <strong data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1522\">would have been doomed to failure in advance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1568\">Distrust of the Kremlin and the issue of reconstruction<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1570\" data-end=\"1711\">Zelensky said that <strong data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1631\">distrusts russia and putin personally<\/strong>, He called the statements about \u00abwishing Ukraine success\u00bb an attempt to avoid pressure and sanctions.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1807\">\n<p data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1807\">\u00abWe don't need cheap electricity. We have already paid too high a price - with people's lives.\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"1992\">Regarding post-war reconstruction, he noted that <strong data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"1927\">the only possible format for russia's participation may be monetary compensation<\/strong>, and the decision to restore the country will be made exclusively by Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1994\" data-end=\"2029\">War, corruption and the situation in Russia<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2031\" data-end=\"2171\">The President stressed that <strong data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2115\">Anti-corruption bodies in Ukraine have full independence<\/strong>, and the checks continue regardless of the status of the defendants.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2313\">Zelenskyy also said that <strong data-start=\"2201\" data-end=\"2243\">russia has slowed down its army build-up<\/strong>For the first time, the number of people mobilised equalled irrecoverable losses.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"2315\" data-end=\"2474\">\n<p data-start=\"2317\" data-end=\"2474\">\u00abThis means that the size of their army is no longer increasing,\u00bb he said, expressing hope that <strong data-start=\"2425\" data-end=\"2473\">in 2026, the war will be completely stopped<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 data-start=\"2476\" data-end=\"2513\">Drones and the future of cooperation with the US<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2515\" data-end=\"2635\">Separately, Zelensky noted <strong data-start=\"2543\" data-end=\"2581\">a strong drone industry in Ukraine<\/strong>, which includes hundreds of companies and joint projects with the US.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"2637\" data-end=\"2807\">\n<p data-start=\"2639\" data-end=\"2807\">\u00abThis has a great future,\u00bb the president said, adding that Ukraine is ready to share its experience and develop large-scale joint production with American technologies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 data-start=\"2809\" data-end=\"2830\">Plans after the war<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2832\" data-end=\"2944\">When asked about his plans after the war and the end of his presidential term, Zelenskyy answered briefly:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"2946\" data-end=\"2999\">\n<p data-start=\"2948\" data-end=\"2999\">\u00abI don't know... Maybe I'll have a rest. I really want to do that.\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439: \u0431\u0435\u0437 \u0421\u0428\u0410 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u043c\u043e\u0436\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u0445\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0442\u0438 \u043d\u0435\u0431\u043e \u0456 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0433\u0442\u0438 \u0443 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u043d\u0456 \u041f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438 \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u0432, \u0449\u043e \u0431\u0435\u0437 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0442\u0440\u0438\u043c\u043a\u0438 \u0421\u0428\u0410 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u043c\u043e\u0436\u0435 \u0435\u0444\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u043e \u0437\u0430\u0445\u0438\u0449\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0454 \u043d\u0435\u0431\u043e \u0456 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0433\u0442\u0438 \u0443 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u043d\u0456 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438 \u0440\u043e\u0441\u0456\u0457. \u00ab\u041f\u041f\u041e, \u0431\u043e\u0454\u043f\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0430\u0441\u0438, \u0430\u0440\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0456\u044f \u2014 \u0446\u0435 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0447\u043d\u043e \u0432\u0430\u0436\u043b\u0438\u0432\u043e\u00bb, \u2014 \u043d\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0441\u0438\u0432 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439. \u041f\u0440\u043e \u0437\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0456\u0447 \u0456\u0437 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u043a\u0440\u0435\u0441\u043b\u0438\u0432, \u0449\u043e \u0437\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0456\u0447 \u0456\u0437 \u0414\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0434 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207433346,"featured_media":7605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805616],"tags":[806754],"class_list":{"0":"post-7604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main-news","8":"tag-806754"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7606,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}