Trump: Ukraine Peace 'Closer Than Ever' After Zelenskyy Meeting

Monday, December 29, 2025

Donald Trump has said a deal to end the war in Ukraine is "closer than ever" but has admitted that "thorny" questions over the future of the eastern Donbas region have yet to be resolved, after a two-hour meeting on Sunday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida.

Posted by Dbt2 at 05:30 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

Trump says he's going to talk to Putin on the phone *again* after he meets with Zelenskyy

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Dec 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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Here's Trump talking more about his Putin Love and Russia, Russia, Russia, and the 'Rigged Election' after the Meeting than about the Meeting.

It's sickening, and an embarrassment to sane people everywhere; Zelenskyy looks like he want to throw-up.

Watch Zelenskyy's Face as TRUMP HUMILIATES HIMSELF

Adam Mockler

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-28 07:55 PM

Repug stammers after being asked which side pedo 47 is on.

www.alternet.org

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-28 08:46 PM

... "closer than ever" ...

What does that even mean?

Is something imminent?

Or are we now 15 years away from peace, instead of 20 years away from peace?

Have Pres Zelenski and Pres Putin even discussed peace face to face yet?

Does Pres Putin even recognize the sovereignty, or even the existence, of Ukraine?

Then there seems to be a Pres Putin prevarication that Ukraine attacked Pres Putin's abode, and that will make peace talks more difficult.

In the peace discussions so far, I see that Pres Zelenski has changed his stance.

But Pres Putin still has not appeared to have given up any of his end goals.

imo, Pres Putin understands o e thing, and one thing only, in these negotiations: strength. And all that Pres Trump has shown so far is an obsequious weakness towards Pres Putin.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-29 06:39 PM

"Russia's losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever

Over the past 10 months, Russian losses in the war with Ukraine have been growing faster than any time since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, BBC analysis suggests.

As peace efforts intensified in 2025 under pressure from US President Donald Trump's administration, 40% more obituaries of soldiers were published in Russian sources compared with the previous year.

Overall, the BBC has confirmed the names of almost 160,000 people killed fighting on Russia's side in Ukraine.

The real death toll is believed to be much higher, and military experts we have consulted believe our analysis of cemeteries, war memorials and obituaries might represent 45-65% of the total.

That would put the number of Russian deaths at between 243,000 and 352,000."

www.bbc.com

US deaths in the Vietnam War? A little over 58,000.

Vietnamese dead in Vietnam War? 3.8 million directly in War action.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-29 10:02 PM

Necrotizing------------- Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet

www.thebulwark.com

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-29 10:07 PM

@#5

Friggin' wow ...

From the link in #5...

... RIGHT-WING MEDIA PERSONALITY Lauren Chen left the United States in July in disgrace. Her Tenet Media YouTube channel, which positioned itself as a sort of MAGA supergroup bringing together such popular commentators as Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin, had been exposed in 2024 by the FBI as a Russian media front illicitly taking money from pro-Putin propaganda outlet RT.

The September 2024 indictment from the Southern District of New York targeted Tenet's FARA-skirting Russian funders, not Chen or her husband, Liam Donovan.

But the Canadian couple were clearly described in the indictment as allegedly scheming with RT employees to direct $10 million to Tenet and even create a fictional persona to mislead one pundit about the source of the funding.

In the wake of the indictment, Chen lost her work visa and was forced to leave the country. She also vanished from social media. It seemed unlikely she would return to the United States anytime soon. ...

But this holiday season, Chen and her husband were back in Nashville, where she lived while running Tenet. She broke the news herself, by announcing on Instagram and X on Christmas Day that she could now return to the United States, and specifically thanking the State Department's Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser on consular affairs and former Trump presidential campaign worker, for his help. ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-29 10:14 PM

What does Pres Putin have over Pres Trump?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-29 10:15 PM

@#7 ... What does Pres Putin have over Pres Trump? ...

[crickets]

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-30 04:04 AM

Imagine someone taking Ted Bundy's side and defending his murders, saying we will never have peace if we keep on trying to get those mass murderers to court. Putin is just such a mass murdering psychopath, who invaded a friendly country, killed many thousands of innocent people, so he could steal land. To make peace with him is to say murder if a fine and dandy way to get your way.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-30 07:30 AM

I will end the war in Ukraine on my first day in office as your president...
--JV Pants campaign pledge for the 2028 election

#10 | Posted by catdog at 2025-12-30 08:23 AM

"Closer than ever".

Translation - nothing has changed. Putin will blow up a Ukraine hospital just for spite.

#11 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-12-30 12:53 PM

Putin, Trump's mass murdering buddy, somehow is seen as a legitimate leader who needs to have his perspectives honored. It is like Ted Bundy running things.

#12 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-31 07:08 AM

Netanyahu gets Deference and huge Payments.

Bombs, Ammo,Intel,you name it. Diplomatic cover for Genocide. Laws passed protecting the killers from ICC prosecution. Including Bibi himself. Sanctions placed on ICC prosecutors to protect Criminals.

He doesn't even have to ask for it.

Daddy Trump just Provides.

Where are the questions about that?

#13 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-31 12:13 PM

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