美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周日表示，他希望达成一项协议，在“两周或更短时间内”结束俄乌战争，但随后表示，多一点时间可能是可以接受的。
特朗普的最后期限是在他与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在梵蒂冈城会面的一天后，当时他们正在罗马参加教皇方济各的葬礼。
“我认为会议进行得很顺利，我们要看看接下来几天会发生什么。我们可能会学到很多东西，”特朗普在返回华盛顿之前在新泽西州莫里斯敦市政机场的停机坪上对记者说。
特朗普表示，他对俄罗斯继续在乌克兰进行导弹和无人机袭击感到“非常失望”，几天前，他曾恳求俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京在谈判继续进行的同时停止袭击。
当被问及他和泽连斯基谈论了什么时，川普说泽连斯基强调他们需要更多的武器。
特朗普说:“他告诉我，他需要更多的武器，我们将看看会发生什么——我想看看俄罗斯会发生什么——当他们轰炸俄罗斯时，我感到惊讶和失望。”
当被问及他想从普京那里得到什么时，特朗普回答说，“我想让他停止射击，坐下来签署一项协议。我相信我们已经达成了协议，我希望他能签署协议，完成交易，回到生活中去。”
特朗普还表示，乌克兰收回俄罗斯在2014年占领的克里米亚领土将是复杂的，同时指责前总统巴拉克奥巴马(Barack Obama)允许俄罗斯占领该地区。当被问及他是否认为乌克兰会放弃克里米亚时，特朗普说“我认为会。”
周日早些时候，美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥(John Kerry)表示，在川普与泽连斯基会晤后，俄乌两国更接近达成协议，但协议仍未达成。
他说，美国现在需要权衡是否是时候介入调停谈判了。
“嗯，我认为他们比过去三年中的任何时候都更接近，但仍然没有，”卢比奥在NBC的“会见新闻界”中说。
“如我所说，如果这项努力没有取得成果，我们就不能继续投入时间和资源。因此，过去一周实际上是要弄清楚这些方面到底有多接近，它们是否足够接近，值得我们在这方面继续投入时间作为调解人。”
川普和泽连斯基周六在梵蒂冈城会面，当时两人都在罗马参加教皇方济各的葬礼。白宫通讯联络主任张致恒表示，两人进行了“非常富有成效的会谈”泽连斯基在X上的一篇帖子中称这次会议“很好”，并说，“希望我们讨论的所有问题都能有结果。保护我们人民的生命。全面无条件停火。这将防止另一场战争的爆发。非常具有象征意义的会晤，如果我们取得共同成果，它有可能成为历史性的会晤。”
会晤结束后，川普抨击俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京继续轰炸乌克兰城市，轰炸持续了一整夜，直到周日早上，对乌克兰六个地区进行了更多的无人机袭击。俄罗斯国防部表示，俄罗斯军队在周日早上击落了八架乌克兰无人机。
卢比奥被问及为什么美国相信普京不会再次入侵乌克兰或另一个欧洲国家，因为他从未承认乌克兰的生存权。
“我不认为和平协议是建立在信任之上的。我认为和平协议必须建立在核查的基础上。必须建立在事实的基础上，必须建立在行动的基础上，必须建立在现实的基础上。“所以这不是信任的问题。这是一个建立在这些事情上的问题，核查，安全，保证，这些事情在过去已经讨论过了，”卢比奥说。
卢比奥说，美国已经取得了“真正的进步，但这一旅程的最后几步总是最艰难的，需要尽快实现。”
卢比奥没有详细说明达成协议的时间表，而是强调这是美国“关键的一周”
他说:“本周将是非常重要的一周，在这一周，我们必须做出决定，这是否是我们希望继续参与的努力，或者是时候关注一些其他问题，这些问题在某些情况下同样重要，如果不是更重要的话，但我们希望看到它发生，我们有理由乐观，但当然也有理由现实。”“我们很接近了，但还不够接近。”
当被问及是否支持谈判时，参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)告诉美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)“国情咨文”，他担心川普会向普京屈服，“出卖”泽连斯基。
“嗯，听着，我最大的担心是，特朗普会向普京屈服，”舒默告诉CNN的达纳·巴什。“这一直是总体迹象。当然，底线非常简单，如果我们屈服于普京，如果特朗普屈服于普京，这是三种非常糟糕的情况:“放弃乌克兰将是一场”道德悲剧，他说，并将“撕裂”与欧洲盟友的联盟。
“但是，第三，也许是最糟糕的，这是美国虚弱的一个迹象。它向每个独裁者发出了一个信号中国在朝鲜，在伊朗，如果你站起来欺负特朗普，你就可以为所欲为，”他说。
国家安全顾问迈克·瓦尔兹告诉福克斯新闻频道“周日早间期货”，随着美国试图迫使俄罗斯达成协议，对俄罗斯的更多制裁可能会到来。
“(特朗普)谈到了对银行业的潜在行动，对石油和天然气行业的潜在行动。但他决心同时使用胡萝卜和大棒来让双方坐到谈判桌前，”他说。
Trump says he wants a Russia-Ukraine deal in '2 weeks or less'
President Donald Trump said Sunday he wants a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war in "two weeks or less," but later said a little more time might be acceptable.
Trump's deadline comes a day after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Vatican City while they were in Rome for Pope Francis' funeral.
"I think the meeting went well, we'll see what happens over the next few days. We'll probably learn a lot," Trump told reporters on the tarmac at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey before returning to Washington.
Trump said he was "very disappointed" that Russia continued to carry out missile and drone strikes in Ukraine days after he had implored Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attacks while negotiations continued.
When asked what he and Zelenskyy talked about, Trump said Zelenskyy emphasized their need for more weapons.
"He told me that he needs more weapons and we're going to see what happens -- I want to see what, with respect to Russia -- with Russia I've been surprised and disappointed when they did the bombing," Trump said.
When asked what he wants from Putin, Trump replied, "I want him to stop shooting, sit down and sign a deal. We have the confines of a deal I believe and I want him to sign it and be done with it and just go back to life."
Trump also said that Ukraine reclaiming its territory in Crimea that Russia occupied in 2014 would be complicated while blaming former President Barack Obama for allowing Russia to take the region. Asked whether he thought Ukraine would give up Crimea, Trump said "I think so."
Earlier Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Russia and Ukraine are closer to a deal after Trump's meeting with Zelenskyy, but a deal is still not there.
He said the U.S. will now need to weigh if it's time for the U.S. to step in to mediate talks.
“Well, I think they're closer in general than they've been any time in the last three years, but it's still not there,” Rubio told NBC's "Meet the Press."
“We cannot continue, as I said, to dedicate time and resources to this effort if it's not going to come to fruition. So the last week has really been about figuring out how close are these sides really and are they close enough that this merits a continued investment of our time as a mediator in this regard.”
Trump and Zelenskyy met in Vatican City on Saturday while both were in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said the two had a "very productive session." Zelenskyy described the meeting as "good" in a post on X and said, "Hoping for results on everything we covered. Protecting 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."
After their meeting, Trump blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow's continued bombardments of Ukrainian cities, which continued overnight into Sunday morning with more drone attacks on six Ukrainian regions. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces downed eight Ukrainian drones overnight into Sunday morning.
Rubio was asked why the U.S. trusts that Putin won't invade Ukraine again or another European country as he has never acknowledged Ukraine's right to exist.
“Well, I don't think peace deals are built on trust. I think peace deals have to be built on verification. Have to be built on facts, have to be built on action, have to be built on realities," Rubio said. "So this is not an issue of, well, of trust. It's an issue of building in these sorts of things, verification, security, guarantees, things that have been discussed in the past,” Rubio said.
Rubio said the U.S. has made "real progess, but those last couple steps of this journey were always going to be the hardest ones, and it needs to happen soon.”
Rubio wouldn’t elaborate on a timeline of a deal but instead stressed this is a "critical week" for the U.S.
“This week is going to be a really important week in which we have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in, or if it's time to sort of focus on some other issues that are equally, if not more important, in some cases, but we want to see it happen, there are reasons to be optimistic, but there are reasons to be realistic, of course, as well," he said. "We're close, but we're not close enough.”
Asked if he supported negotiations, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN's "State of the Union that he fears Trump will cave in to Putin and "sell out" Zelenskyy.
“Well, look, my great fear, Dana, is that Trump will just cave in to Putin," Schumer told CNN's Dana Bash. "That's been the overall indications all along. And, of course, the bottom line is very simple, that if we cave to Putin, if Trump caves in to Putin, it's three -- it's bad in three very bad ways:” abandoning Ukraine would be a "moral tragedy, he said, and would "tear asunder" alliances with European allies.
"But, third, and maybe worst of all, it's a sign that the United States is weak. It sends a signal to every dictator inChina, in North Korea, in Iran that, if you stand up and bully Trump, you're going to get your way," he said.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that more sanctions against Russia could be coming as the U.S. tries to force it to make a deal.
“[Trump] talked about potential action on banking, potential action on the oil and gas sector. But he's determined to use both carrots and sticks to get both sides to the table,” he said.
