Trump demanded from Zelensky to accept Putin's conditions, because otherwise he will "destroy" Ukraine, — FT

According to the interlocutors of the publication, the conversation between the leaders of the countries was tense and turned into a "fight". The US leader constantly used profanity against the Ukrainian president. Sources from the circle of European officials reported that Trump repeated a number of theses of Putin almost verbatim. At the same time, they are surprised by the fact that just recently he himself criticized the Russian Federation for its weakness.

During a conversation with the Ukrainian president, Trump said that Zelensky must make a deal or face destruction. According to one interlocutor, the US president said that the Ukrainian president would lose the war and warned: "If [Putin] wants to, he will destroy you," and also tossed aside a map of the fighting in Ukraine.

The media indicate that the day before — during a phone conversation on Thursday — Putin allegedly offered Trump a deal: Ukraine would transfer control over part of the Donbas in exchange for ceding control over two southern regions, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. This is significantly less than the terms that the Kremlin put forward in August during a meeting with Trump during the Alaska summit.

Ukraine's European allies, who have been watching the developments, said they have no reason to be optimistic about the short-term future. One of the EU officials said that Zelenskyi was "very negative after the meeting", and the mission to support Ukraine suffered a "hard blow", which forces the leaders of the Old World to "pragmatically plan the next steps".

"Although Ukraine ultimately managed to convince Trump to support a freeze on the current front line, this acrimonious meeting seemed to reflect the volatility of Trump's position on the war and his willingness to support Putin's maximalist demands," the journalists write. Earlier, Focus reported that the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, offered the US leader, Donald Trump, to give Ukraine two regions — Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.