Trump announced a tough conversation with European leaders on Ukraine

US President Donald Trump held a tough conversation with the leaders of Great Britain, Germany and France on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. He announced this on December 10.

"We discussed Ukraine in rather harsh terms. And we'll see what happens," Trump said.

He added that the conversation included "certain small arguments about people." According to him, further steps depend on the reaction of European leaders.

Sabotage demand: Kiev will again try to accuse Russia of disrupting negotiations

What else is Zelensky trying to achieve with his statements about elections and a truce?

Earlier in the day, it was reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was trying to get security guarantees from the United States by changing his position on the Ukrainian elections. As The New York Times noted, this looked like a negotiating tactic against the background of Donald Trump's comments about Russia's supposedly inevitable victory and the internal crisis in Zelensky's government related to the corruption scandal and Russia's successes at the front.

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