Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the recent meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave him the \u201cfirst sliver of hope I\u2019ve had in a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
“You saw that meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky, very public images, very remarkable images really. But what does that signal to you?\u201d ABC News\u2019s Martha Raddatz asked Sullivan on \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it gives me the first sliver of hope I’ve had in a while because what I’ve seen to date is President Trump giving Vladimir Putin U.S. recognition of Crimea, which Russia illegally occupied and annexed,\u201d Sullivan responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven China hasn’t recognized Crimea as part of Russia, and President Trump is telling the Russians he will do that. He’s given Putin a promise that Ukraine will not be part of NATO, and he\u2019s given Putin a promise that he can keep all the territory that he has illegally invaded and seized,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Since President Trump\u2019s return to office a few months ago, his administration has pushed to end the war in Ukraine, talking with both Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
Trump and Zelensky met Saturday in<\/a> Rome prior to the funeral of Pope Francis<\/a>, who died last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cGood meeting. We discussed a lot one on one,\u201d Zelensky wrote on the social platform X on Saturday. \u201cHoping for results on everything we covered.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cProtecting lives of our people. Full and unconditional ceasefire. Reliable and lasting peace that will prevent another war from breaking out. Very symbolic meeting that has potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results,\u201d he added. \u201cThank you @POTUS.\u201d<\/p>\n On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the \u201conly solution\u201d for the war in Ukraine is a negotiation where both Russia and Ukraine \u201cgive up something.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no military solution to this war,\u201d Rubio told NBC News\u2019s Kristen Welker on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d \u201cThe only solution to this war is a negotiated settlement where both sides are going to have to give up something they claim to want, and are going to have to give the other side something they wish they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s how you end wars, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to achieve here so more people won\u2019t die,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the recent meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave him the \u201cfirst sliver of hope I\u2019ve had in a while.\u201d “You saw that meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky, very public images, very remarkable images really. But what does that signal to you?\u201d ABC News\u2019s Martha Raddatz asked Sullivan on \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cWell, it gives me the first…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}