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Home / Ukraine-Russia / Donald Trump needs To walk if Zelensky wants to keep fighting Russia
Ukraine‑Russia, Europe and Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine

April 15, 2025

Donald Trump needs To walk if Zelensky wants to keep fighting Russia

By Daniel Davis

The biggest obstacle to peace in the Russia-Ukraine war is not Vladimir Putin, it’s not Donald Trump, it’s only one man: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

If you think that’s heretical to say, you haven’t been paying attention.

The majority of Americans have understandably been rooting for Ukraine from the beginning of the war in 2022 when Russian armor flooded across the border into Ukraine on multiple axes.

About 10 days before the war started, the United States relocated its embassy and personnel to the relative safety of the western Ukrainian city of Lvov. When the Biden Administration privately offered transportation to Lvov, out of harm’s way, Zelensky captured the admiration of the Western world when he declared, “I need ammunition; not a ride.”

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