Last night on truth social, Trump ramped up the pressure on Ukraine, writing that Zelensky can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to, or he can continue to fight.

Trump also suggested that Ukraine should not retake the Russian occupied territory of Crimea, nor should it join NATO.

Zelensky responded to that in a social media post of his own,

writing in part, quote, peace must be lasting, not like it was years ago when Ukraine was forced to

give up Crimea and part of our East, part of Donbass, and Putin simply used it as a springboard for a new

attack, or when Ukraine was given so-called security guarantees in 1994,

but they didn't work.

Now, several European and NATO leaders are expected to attend today's meeting in Washington, as we said.

They include the President of the European Commission, the Chancellor of Germany,

the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and of Italy,

the Presidents of France and of Finland, and the NATO Secretary General Joseph.

I mean, this is, I've not seen in all the years that I have covered American politics, I have

not seen a delegation like this from Europe, not even at the outbreak of the Iraq war, come to Washington,

come to the White House to make Europe's case for peace and security. One way to think about what's

happening today and in the succeeding days is this war has been about whether Ukraine can become a

Western country.

That's been the aspiration of the Ukrainian people, and it was intolerable to Putin and to Russia.

And Russia really fought a war to prevent Ukraine from becoming European.

If the United States today, by offering security guarantees to whatever part of Ukraine merges from the war intact,

so that that country can be, as South Korea became, as West Germany became, a part of the West,

with our guarantees of security behind them, then that's an outcome that's going to make for

a more prosperous of Ukraine.

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