{"id":140640,"date":"2025-10-20T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140640"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:51:51","slug":"ft-donald-trump-urged-volodymyr-zelenskyy-to-accept-putins-terms-or-be-destroyed-by-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140640","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Putin\u2019s terms or be \u2018destroyed\u2019 by Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia\u2019s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would \u201cdestroy\u201d Ukraine if it did not agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a \u201cshouting match\u201d, with Trump \u201ccursing all the time\u201d, people familiar with the matter said. They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the front line in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Trump later endorsed a freeze of the current front lines, the acrimonious meeting appeared to reflect the US president\u2019s shifting position on the war and his willingness to endorse Putin\u2019s maximalist demands. The meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy came amid a fresh push by the US president to end Russia\u2019s war following the ceasefire secured between Israel and Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7960c6aa-dbfa-4a55-91e8-ae44601842ec\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin\u2019s terms or be \u2018destroyed\u2019 by Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AdUz5KW72A\">https:\/\/t.co\/AdUz5KW72A<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristopherJM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChristopherJM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenryJFoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HenryJFoy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxseddon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@maxseddon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ak_mack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ak_mack<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Valentina Pop (@valentinapop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valentinapop\/status\/1979952462984266129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia\u2019s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would \u201cdestroy\u201d Ukraine if it did not agree. The meeting between the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140640\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,106,616,665,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-office-of-the-president","category-president-donald-trump","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140644,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140640\/revisions\/140644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}