Zelensky Expresses Optimism for Peace Following 'Positive' Conversation with Trump

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Diplomatic relations can shift dramatically in just a few weeks, and today demonstrated how quickly the tone between world leaders can change. Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump struck a notably positive note following their recent hour-long phone call, a stark contrast to the heated exchanges seen in the Oval Office last month.

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Although no media was present during the discussion, the official statements from both leaders indicated a more constructive dialogue. Zelensky described the conversation as "positive, very substantive and frank," and expressed admiration for Trump’s "concept of peace through strength." Statements from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz reinforced this sentiment, with spokesperson Leavitt stating that the conversation was "fantastic."

 

Zelensky expressed gratitude for U.S. support, particularly regarding the provision of Javelin missiles, and emphasized that "lasting peace under President Trump's leadership can be achieved." The two leaders also addressed the ongoing conflict in Kursk, with Zelensky requesting additional air defense resources. A technical meeting is expected soon, aiming to progress toward a broader ceasefire in the Black Sea region.

 

 

Trump reportedly suggested that "American ownership" of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure could be beneficial for the country. 

 

Providing further details on the call, Zelensky underscored his belief that "lasting peace can be achieved this year together with America, with President Trump, and under American leadership." He highlighted that an end to strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure was "one of the first steps toward fully ending the war," reaffirming Ukraine’s readiness to implement such measures.

 

Additionally, Trump shared insights from his recent conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, while Zelensky updated him on battlefield developments and the impact of Russian attacks.

 

Later Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a more detailed statement, saying that Trump had agreed to help Ukraine source additional air defence systems, particularly in Europe. The two leaders "agreed to share information closely between their defence staffs as the battlefield situation evolved", he said.

 

Technical teams would meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss broadening the ceasefire to the Black Sea, Rubio added, saying they agreed that this could be the first step towards fully ending the war.

 

Trump also raised the possibility of the US taking ownership of Ukraine's power plants, adding that it would be the "best protection" for Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Rubio said.

 

Zelensky described his conversation with Trump as "positive", "frank", and "very substantive".

 

The two presidents agreed to maintain communication at the highest level, ensuring that their teams collaborate on "all necessary aspects of advancing toward lasting peace and security guarantees." Leavitt reiterated that Zelensky had thanked the U.S. for its continued support, particularly in military assistance, and emphasized that the focus had shifted from previous discussions, such as the minerals deal, to broader peace negotiations.

 

With both leaders portraying the conversation in a positive light, the diplomatic landscape appears to be moving toward renewed efforts for stability. As discussions continue, the possibility of achieving lasting peace remains on the horizon, with Ukraine and the United States pledging to work closely together in pursuit of that goal.

 

Based on a report by BBC News  2025-03-20

 

 

[Eric Loh]

Easy to win over Trump with flattery. But don't count on his short attention span and his unpredictability. Putin is made to be seen as a warmonger and do not want peace. Nice move Zelensky. 

[Hakuna Matata]

Ukraine and Russia trade strikes

 

 

[Hakuna Matata]

Ukraine Violates Putin-Trump Ceasefire Deal With Drone Strike On Russian Oil Facility

 

 

[Hakuna Matata]

Ukraine hit Russian oil refinery in Krasnodar that produces millions of tons of fuel

 

 

[worgeordie]

Message to Zelensky .......don't trust him , he would sell you down the river in a heartbeat,

at least with Putin you know what he wants to do...

 

regards Worgeordie

[Hakuna Matata]

Breaking: Russian Military Shoots Down Its Own Drones Post Trump-Putin Call | Ukraine War Ceasefire

 

 

[spidermike007]

Hopefully Zelensky understands that Trump will throw even his best friends under the bus if it benefits him one iota, and it would be very surprising if Trump did anything to harm the interests of Russia and Putin. 

 

 

[Hellfire]

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

Hopefully Zelensky understands that Trump will throw even his best friends under the bus if it benefits him one iota, and it would be very surprising if Trump did anything to harm the interests of Russia and Putin. 

 

 

To be honest, most Russians will never truly like a U.S. president. Their Soviet-era mindset ingrains a deep-rooted hostility toward American leaders. At best, Trump can hope to be seen as a useful idiot. 

[bkk6060]

Great, all this in a few months while the weak scared Euros did nothing for 3 years.

 

And jeez, of all the parties involved  I distrust Zelensky the most.  I sure would like to see his detailed accounting of the 100's of billions sent to him.  Elon needs to get in there and figure out where all the money went.

 

[LiamB80]

This is the guy that wants to send every British white male into the meat grinder. He’ll fit in good in Pattaya. He has around 10000 troops and like 50 tanks. The other guy from France that wants to send troops is rumored to be a ladyboy lover also. European strength.

[mfd101]

I'm guessing that Zelenskyy probably understands full well that trusting Trump is almost as risky as trusting Putin.

[steven100]

Zelensky was positive that Trump was telling him lies.  

[KireB]

20 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Great, all this in a few months while the weak scared Euros did nothing for 3 years.

 

And jeez, of all the parties involved  I distrust Zelensky the most.  I sure would like to see his detailed accounting of the 100's of billions sent to him.  Elon needs to get in there and figure out where all the money went.

 

Jesus, are you a child? 

[Jingthing]

21 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Great, all this in a few months while the weak scared Euros did nothing for 3 years.

 

And jeez, of all the parties involved  I distrust Zelensky the most.  I sure would like to see his detailed accounting of the 100's of billions sent to him.  Elon needs to get in there and figure out where all the money went.

 

Vladimir and other Russian assets like Trump and Musk thank you.

[Jingthing]

30 minutes ago, Hellfire said:

To be honest, most Russians will never truly like a U.S. president. Their Soviet-era mindset ingrains a deep-rooted hostility toward American leaders. At best, Trump can hope to be seen as a useful idiot. 

He is certainly that and much more to Putin.

[Jingthing]

36 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Hopefully Zelensky understands that Trump will throw even his best friends under the bus if it benefits him one iota, and it would be very surprising if Trump did anything to harm the interests of Russia and Putin. 

 

 

He certainly understands that quite well but he needs to play a flattering game with the Putin asset in the white house for the time being anyway.

[steven100]

22 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Great, all this in a few months while the weak scared Euros did nothing for 3 years.

 

And jeez, of all the parties involved  I distrust Zelensky the most.  I sure would like to see his detailed accounting of the 100's of billions sent to him.  Elon needs to get in there and figure out where all the money went.

 

you knuckehead you  !!    you think Zelensky just got suitcases full of cash hey ....  someone who doesn't know is best to keep their mouth shut rather than make a fool of themselves.   

You sit behind your keyboard and rubbish Zelensky where you couldn't even be his shadow or hold a candle to him.  

[CygnusX1]

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Easy to win over Trump with flattery. But don't count on his short attention span and his unpredictability. Putin is made to be seen as a warmonger and do not want peace. Nice move Zelensky.

'Putin is made to be seen as a warmonger' - that's not hard to do!

[Jingthing]

20 minutes ago, CygnusX1 said:

'Putin is made to be seen as a warmonger' - that's not hard to do!

Not hard for decent people.

But hard for Kremlin puppets.

[CygnusX1]

28 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

And jeez, of all the parties involved  I distrust Zelensky the most.  I sure would like to see his detailed accounting of the 100's of billions sent to him.  Elon needs to get in there and figure out where all the money went.

After the tens of trillions of dollars the US has spent on defense against Russia since WW2, a hundred billion or two assisting Ukraine fight the Russian invaders, with no risk to the life of any American soldier, is a spectacular bargain. Trump should be thanking Ukraine.

[sharot724]

Is there enough praise to tilt to the courage it will take to take on Vlad?

[Hakuna Matata]

U.S. control over Ukrainian nuclear power plants?

 

Today’s news on the Ukrainian front centers on the one-hour telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday during which Trump suggested that the USA take ownership of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants. The BBC’s commentators could make no sense of this.  Let’s give it a try below.

Most of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants are within territory under its own control. However, the largest such plant, indeed the largest nuclear plant in all of Europe, is in Zaporozhye under Russian command. Because of repeated Ukrainian missile and drone attacks which damaged the generators providing electricity needed to control the plant and also damaged administrative facilities, the Zaporozhye plant is not operating presently, but it could be restored in relatively short order.

Now why would the USA be interested in taking control of those plants?

For one thing, these are tangible assets of considerable present and future value. In that sense, they are easy to claim as partial reimbursement for the cash and war materiel that Washington poured into Ukraine over the past three years, much easier to quantify than the much touted rare earth deposits that were first identified as potential compensation to the USA but are likely a chimera.

Secondly, US ownership would, like the imagined rare earths mining, provide a focus for long terms American presence in Ukraine and thereby would be a ‘guarantee’ against possible future Russian ‘aggression’ without the need for boots on the ground.  This would knock down entirely the British-French initiative for a coalition of the willing to position so-called military peace enforcers, which the Russians categorically reject and which could be a trigger for the start of WWIII.

Thirdly, US ownership would prevent the more insane groups within Ukrainian civil and military elites from using the nuclear waste buried just around the power plants to create ‘dirty bombs’ to attack Russia, as the revanchists surely have been plotting.

What surprises me about this proposal is that it found an author within the Trump entourage and was quickly taken up to the level of The Boss.  There were plenty of smart assed Yale and Harvard educated lawyers in the entourage of Joe Biden but all they cooked up for their boss was sophomoric level ideas that lacked any grasp of how the real-world functions.  Not so the people around Trump.  Bravo!

How would the Russians take this idea of U.S. ownership of Kiev’s nuclear power plants?  I think it will go down very well in Moscow. This kind of adult analysis of the situation and preparation of constructive tentative solutions has not been seen on the U.S. side for decades.

If I may here complete the thinking process that I opened yesterday in my chat with Judge Napolitano, I think the essence of the reset Trump is proposing to Putin is for a new Russian-American alliance, as per in WWII, set within a reconfigured understanding of who are the Allies and who are the Axis.  The Axis today is Britain, France and Germany!   If I am right, then it is essential that progress be made on the Ukraine settlement post haste so that Trump can join Putin, Xi and Modi in Moscow on 9 May.
©GD, 2025

[ElwoodP]

Off topic posts removed.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Easy to win over Trump with flattery. But don't count on his short attention span and his unpredictability. Putin is made to be seen as a warmonger and do not want peace. Nice move Zelensky. 

Zelensky is the war monger.. he's making to much money to quit fighting

[candide]

2 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Great, all this in a few months while the weak scared Euros did nothing for 3 years.

 

And jeez, of all the parties involved  I distrust Zelensky the most.  I sure would like to see his detailed accounting of the 100's of billions sent to him.  Elon needs to get in there and figure out where all the money went.

 

Not 100's of billion, one 100. 120 exactly (about half of what Europeans gave).

70% of this amont has been spent in the U.S. to buy supplies which have been sent to Ukraine!

 

But don't let facts get in the way of a good Russian story! 

[rough diamond]

2 hours ago, mfd101 said:

I'm guessing that Zelenskyy probably understands full well that trusting Trump is almost as risky as trusting Putin.

He won't be trusting either of them.

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, Hakuna Matata said:

U.S. control over Ukrainian nuclear power plants?

 

Today’s news on the Ukrainian front centers on the one-hour telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday during which Trump suggested that the USA take ownership of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants. The BBC’s commentators could make no sense of this.  Let’s give it a try below.

Most of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants are within territory under its own control. However, the largest such plant, indeed the largest nuclear plant in all of Europe, is in Zaporozhye under Russian command. Because of repeated Ukrainian missile and drone attacks which damaged the generators providing electricity needed to control the plant and also damaged administrative facilities, the Zaporozhye plant is not operating presently, but it could be restored in relatively short order.

Now why would the USA be interested in taking control of those plants?

For one thing, these are tangible assets of considerable present and future value. In that sense, they are easy to claim as partial reimbursement for the cash and war materiel that Washington poured into Ukraine over the past three years, much easier to quantify than the much touted rare earth deposits that were first identified as potential compensation to the USA but are likely a chimera.

Secondly, US ownership would, like the imagined rare earths mining, provide a focus for long terms American presence in Ukraine and thereby would be a ‘guarantee’ against possible future Russian ‘aggression’ without the need for boots on the ground.  This would knock down entirely the British-French initiative for a coalition of the willing to position so-called military peace enforcers, which the Russians categorically reject and which could be a trigger for the start of WWIII.

Thirdly, US ownership would prevent the more insane groups within Ukrainian civil and military elites from using the nuclear waste buried just around the power plants to create ‘dirty bombs’ to attack Russia, as the revanchists surely have been plotting.

What surprises me about this proposal is that it found an author within the Trump entourage and was quickly taken up to the level of The Boss.  There were plenty of smart assed Yale and Harvard educated lawyers in the entourage of Joe Biden but all they cooked up for their boss was sophomoric level ideas that lacked any grasp of how the real-world functions.  Not so the people around Trump.  Bravo!

How would the Russians take this idea of U.S. ownership of Kiev’s nuclear power plants?  I think it will go down very well in Moscow. This kind of adult analysis of the situation and preparation of constructive tentative solutions has not been seen on the U.S. side for decades.

If I may here complete the thinking process that I opened yesterday in my chat with Judge Napolitano, I think the essence of the reset Trump is proposing to Putin is for a new Russian-American alliance, as per in WWII, set within a reconfigured understanding of who are the Allies and who are the Axis.  The Axis today is Britain, France and Germany!   If I am right, then it is essential that progress be made on the Ukraine settlement post haste so that Trump can join Putin, Xi and Modi in Moscow on 9 May.
©GD, 2025

 

Not taking away from your well thought-out analysis as regards to the nuclear power plants. My 2 cents worth of take away was that Zelemsky humoured Trump and Trump doesn't even realized that he was teased. Trump laid out his idea that US could own and run Ukraine's power plants as part of his ceasefire plan. Zelensky replied was that they can talk about 1 plant (Zaporizhzhia) which is under Russia occupation. That was a rather smug reply and a kind of telling off Trump go talk to your good friend Putin as I am not interested. Of course the buffon does not understand subtlety.

[natway09]

Hakana

Love your logic but Putin is no more going to reqinquish his "ownership" of a captured 

power plant than I off to Mars with Trump next week

[CallumWK]

27 minutes ago, natway09 said:

Hakana

Love your logic but Putin is no more going to reqinquish his "ownership" of a captured 

power plant than I off to Mars with Trump next week

 

Maybe Trump means all plants under Ukraine control, and the one that is in occupied territory is for Putin to keep.