During a meeting at the White House, the US President Donald Trump called on Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russia's terms for ending the war, warning that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin would, he said,"destroy" Ukraine if it did not agree. This was reported by Financial Times, citing their sources.

According to the publication's interlocutors, this meeting repeatedly escalated into a"shoutout," during which Trump "constantly cursed."

They noted that the US president did not look at the maps of the front line in Ukraine and insisted that Zelensky give Putin all of Donbas, and also repeatedly repeated the theses expressed by the Russian dictator during their telephone conversation the day before.

"While Ukraine ultimately managed to persuade Trump to support a freeze on the current front line, the acrimonious meeting appeared to reflect Trump's shifting stance on the war and his willingness to back Putin's maximalist demands," the FT stressed.

European officials told reporters that during the meeting, Trump repeated many of the Russian dictator's theses verbatim, despite the fact that they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia's weakness.

One European official said Trump told Zelensky that the Ukrainian president must make a deal or face ruin.

The official added that Trump told Zelensky that he would lose the war and warned:

"If [Putin] wants to, he will destroy you."

Another source told the publication that at one point during the meeting, the American leader threw aside a map of Ukraine with the battlefield.

At the same time, three other European officials confirmed that Trump spent much of the meeting lecturing Zelensky, repeating Putin's arguments about the conflict and urging him to accept the Russian proposal.

According to one official, Zelensky was"very negative" after the meeting, adding that European leaders"were not optimistic, but pragmatic in planning the next steps."

What is known about Putin's new demands?

The Financial Times recalled that the Russian dictator proposed that Ukraine give Russia the rest of Donbas, which is under its control, in exchange for some territories in the south of our country.

"Ceding [Donbas] to Russia without a fight is unacceptable for Ukrainian society, and Putin knows this," noted Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

According to him, Putin is probably promoting this idea to"cause division in Ukraine and undermine our unity."

"It's not about getting more territory for Russia, it's about how to destroy us from within," Merezhko added.

At the same time, after meeting with Zelensky, Donald Trump stated in an interview with Fox News that Putin will not end the war , until he gets some part of Ukraine. According to him, the Russian dictator has already"won certain territories."

In turn, Le Monde wrote that Russia is already celebrating a diplomatic victory and plan to divide the world in Budapest. In particular, a feast of complacency has begun in the Russian information space.

"It seems that there is a plan for the settlement [of the war in Ukraine], which has already been presented in Alaska, and for which precise parameters have been defined," said Fyodor Lukyanov, whom the French newspaper called"the Kremlin's favorite political scientist," in a commentary for Le Monde.