President Donald Trump said he was disappointed with Russia for launching missile strikes while efforts were underway to broker a peace agreement between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking with reporters, Trump addressed a wide range of topics, including the Russia-Ukraine peace talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Putin first proposed the meeting in an apparent attempt to derail Western nations\u2019 intentions to impose further sanctions if Moscow did not commit to a 30-day truce on a few weeks ago. In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky requested that the Russian leader meet with him in person in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, said that Moscow will send a team but did not indicate who would represent Russia. He also declined to confirm if Putin will attend the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reports indicate that U.S. officials have floated a potential ceasefire proposal that would include recognizing Russia\u2019s control of Crimea\u2014territory it annexed in 2014\u2014and freezing current frontlines. However, Zelenskyy has made it clear that Crimea remains a non-negotiable red line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2022, Zelenskyy said the Russian war against Ukraine and against the entire free Europe \u201cbegan with Crimea and must end with Crimea \u2013 and its liberation,\u201d according to a report from Axios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zelenskyy reaffirmed his government\u2019s position, dismissing any proposal that would acknowledge Russian sovereignty over Crimea. Trump, meanwhile, placed the blame for the loss of Crimea on the prior U.S. administrations of Presidents Obama and Biden, criticizing their handling of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump said: \u201cCrimea was given away by Barack Hussein Obama, and by Biden, like 11 or 12 years ago. That\u2019s a long time ago,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cI don\u2019t know how he could bring up Crimea, because that\u2019s been a long time. Nobody brought it up for 12 years, and now they\u2019re bringing it up now. So, I told them, I told him, he should maybe go back to Obama, ask him why they gave it up. They gave it without a shot being fired by him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As far as current negotiations about reaching peace, Trump said he wanted Putin to \u201cstop shooting, sit down and sign a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have the confines of a deal, I believe, and I want him to sign it and be done with it,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump went on to say that the U.S. is respected once again after he took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no more games,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have somebody that knows what he\u2019s doing, not like the previous person who didn\u2019t have a clue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes as Trump is dealing with promised repercussions<\/a> for protestors who spit on police officers amid the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hours after sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles, California, President Donald Trump promised repercussions<\/a> for protestors who spit on police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking to reporters alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New Jersey before boarding Air Force One, the president criticized the protestors\u2019 methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Saturday, he authorized the deployment of at least 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to demonstrations over ICE raids on employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump told reporters that he is considering invoking the Insurrection Act in response to the riots and chaos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new report reveals one of the main groups behind the anti-ICE demonstrators<\/a> on the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday, which has led to many insulting <\/a>and harassing<\/a> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement comes after President Donald Trump federalized just shy of 2,000 California National Guard troops, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put another 500 U.S. Marines located nearby at Camp Pendleton on standby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are more protests expected in California on Monday and maybe the rest of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump said he was disappointed with Russia for launching missile strikes while efforts were underway to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}