{"id":5177,"date":"2025-10-19T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:37:21","slug":"trump-putting-more-pressure-on-ukraine-than-russia-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/trump-putting-more-pressure-on-ukraine-than-russia-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump putting more pressure on Ukraine than Russia \u2013 WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US has considered punitive steps to push Moscow toward a peace deal, but has hesitated to use them, the paper said<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump is placing more pressure on Ukraine than on Russia as he prepares for a new summit with President Vladimir Putin, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing sources.<\/p>\n

Several American officials told the outlet that they have observed Trump’s “hesitation to push Putin, who has shown little interest in concessions needed for a deal.”<\/em> One WSJ source noted that “the White House has put more pressure on Kiev than on Moscow.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The WSJ said Washington has weighed additional measures to increase pressure on Moscow, but so far has stopped short of applying them. This comes as Putin and Trump held a phone call on Thursday, during which the two agreed to hold a summit in Budapest, Hungary, in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Hoping to build diplomatic momentum, US officials are reportedly planning a series of lower-level meetings with their Russian counterparts, to be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio – rather than special envoy Steve Witkoff – a change viewed positively by Ukrainian and EU diplomats, according to the paper. Western media tend to view Rubio as more hawkish on Russia than Witkoff, who has held several face-to-face rounds of talks with Putin this year.<\/p>\n

Following the call with Putin, Trump received Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at the White House on Friday, with talks revolving around potential deliveries of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kiev. According to Axios, however, the meeting was “bad,”<\/em> and Zelensky left without any promises of deliveries.<\/p>\n

Moscow has warned against supplying Tomahawks to Ukraine, arguing they would “not change the situation on the battlefield”<\/em> but would “severely undermine the prospects of a peaceful settlement”<\/em> and harm Russia-US relations.<\/p>\n

Following the Trump-Zelensky meeting, the US president said that he had told both the Ukrainian leader and Putin that “it is time to stop the killing, and make a DEAL.”<\/em> “They should stop where they are… Let both claim Victory, let History decide!”<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

Russia has consistently praised the Trump administration over what it described as a genuine desire to find a peaceful settlement to the conflict and as attempts to understand its root causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US has considered punitive steps to push Moscow toward a peace deal, but has hesitated to use them, the paper said US President Donald Trump is placing more pressure on Ukraine than on Russia as he prepares for a new summit with President Vladimir Putin, the Wall Street Journal…<\/p>\n

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