Barney Davis
Published November 23, 2025 2:55pm
Updated November 23, 2025 3:17pm
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Donald Trump is feeling underappreciated as he hits out again at Kyiv (Picture: EPA)
Donald Trump has slammed Ukraine’s leadership for not thanking him for his efforts to end the war with Russia.
The US President has accused Ukraine of having ‘zero gratitude’ in a post on his Truth Social profile.
He wrote: ‘UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS, AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA.’
‘I INHERITED A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, A WAR THAT IS A LOSER FOR EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE SO NEEDLESSLY DIED.’
He repeated his accusation that Vladimir Putin seized his chance to invade as ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden was in the White House.
It came as a widely leaked 28-point US-backed peace plan acquiesces to many Russian demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has categorically rejected on dozens of occasions, including giving up large pieces of territory.
It prompted fears it was entirely drafted by the Kremlin but Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied the accusation saying it took a month of negotiation.
He wrote on X: ‘The peace proposal was authored by the US. It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations.‘It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine.’
Nevertheless, Trump says he wants Ukraine to accept the plan by late next week.
Seemingly in response, Ukraine’s top security official, Rustem Umerov said: ‘We appreciate our American partners working closely with us to understand our concerns to reach this critical point and we expect to make more progress today.’
Zelensky says there is now an understanding that the US-proposed peace plan may take into account ‘a number of elements that are based on the Ukrainian vision and are critical to Ukraine’s national interests’.
He adds that further work is ongoing to ensure that ‘all elements are truly effective in achieving the main goal – to finally put an end to the bloodshed and war’.
US insists it authored its 28-point Ukraine peace after Russian ‘wish list’ rouses suspicions it was drafted by Kremlin (Picture: Telegram)
Meanwhile the war rages on. Deputy Head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration Taras Pastukh reported that 34 people were killed in a Russian strike with two men, three women and one child still missing.
‘Of them, 33 have already been identified. For one person, forensic experts are still working to establish the identity,’ Pastukh said on Telegram.
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‘During the search operations, body fragments belonging to a man were found.
‘Experts are now determining which of the two missing individuals they belong to. Although we cannot rule out that this may be yet another person, because at 8 Stus Street, those killed were not only residents of the building but also people who were passing by on their way to the shelter.
‘We have four people who died at this address but did not live in the building,’ Pastukh said.
At least 170,000 people have been killed in the Russia–Ukraine war but the real toll could be significantly higher.
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