{"id":351,"date":"2025-12-30T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:28:46","slug":"zelenskyy-says-us-support-critical-for-ukraine-doubts-russian-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/zelenskyy-says-us-support-critical-for-ukraine-doubts-russian-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy says US support critical for Ukraine, doubts Russian intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">&#8216;Without American support, we can&#8217;t defend the sky,&#8217; says Ukrainian president <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By Diyar Guldogan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON (AA) &#8211; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised the importance of continued American support for his country\u2019s defence against Russia in an interview that aired Monday on US broadcaster Fox News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCan we win without American support? No,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Without American support, we can&#8217;t defend the sky. Even now, it&#8217;s very difficult. But American support with missiles for air defence is really helpful and strong in any case.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks came after a meeting Sunday with President Donald Trump in the US state of Florida, where they discussed the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the talks with Zelenskyy, Trump told reporters that he discussed Ukraine&#8217;s post-war reconstruction with Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding Moscow will help, &#8220;including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelenskyy expressed deep mistrust of Russia and Putin, stating: \u201cI don&#8217;t trust Russians\u2026I don&#8217;t trust Putin, and he doesn&#8217;t want success for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Really, he doesn&#8217;t want (it). I believe that he can say such words to President Trump. I believe in it, that he can say it, but it&#8217;s not true&#8230;He can say that &#8216;I want a successful Ukraine, and I&#8217;m ready to give them cheap electricity\u2019&#8230;It&#8217;s not about energy. We don&#8217;t need anything from them,&#8221; Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about Russia\u2019s potential role in post-war reconstruction, Zelenskyy said that any rebuilding efforts would require Russian financial contributions, adding: \u201cThey have to give us money\u2026and we will rebuild everything what we need to rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Without American support, we can&#8217;t defend the sky,&#8217; says Ukrainian president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,27,23,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-putin","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-trump","11":"tag-united-states"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}