President Donald Trump, right, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands at the start of a joint news conference following a meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, Dec. 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoken out against Donald Trump’s “very, very painful” attitude towards Vladimir Putin.The Ukrainian president was speaking after his delegates met with their Russian and US counterparts in Geneva for their third attempt at trilateral talks.The White House is desperate to get a peace deal over the line as soon as possible, even if that means rewarding Russia for being an aggressor.Putin currently holds a fifth of Ukraine’s sovereign land but wants to control the whole of the Donbas, which is only 90% occupied by Russian troops at the moment.While Ukraine has made it clear that giving up any more territory would be a red line, Trump has repeatedly blamed Zelenskyy – not Putin – for the slow progress in the talks.The Ukrainian president said it is “painful” when Trump’s attitude to the Russian president is better “than Putin deserves”.Speaking to Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, Zelenskyy said: “I trust him [Trump]… he really wants to end this war… and I trust that he really can end this war. But I don’t know, to speak about his relationship with Putin, I want to be very honest.“It’s not about question of trust or not, he has such relations which I can’t really estimate or understand… I don’t know about it.“But they have some relations, I’m sure and that’s why for me, sometimes it’s very, very painful that his attitude to Putin is sometimes, to put it, more good than Putin deserves.”Trump has welcomed Putin back onto the international stage since starting his second term in office.He rolled out the red carpet for him in Alaska for a face-to-face summit – despite the international arrest warrant out for the Russian authoritarian – and has invited Putin to join his “Board of Peace” group, too.Zelenskyy also made it clear that he is passionate about securing a peace deal.He told Piers Morgan that while people are “tired” of the war and want to “finish with this tragedy”, it was important to do so “in the right way not to loose dignity”.Zelenskyy added that he does not trust Putin, but said: “It’s not about trust, it’s about deciding how to end the war.”When pressed over the prospect of a one-to-one meeting with Putin, he said he did not want to waste time talking about “historical shit”, which his Russian counterpart is known to do.The Ukrainian president said: “But I don’t need to waste time on historic issues, reasons why he began, all this I think bullshit what he’s raising with Americans… about the Peter the first etc. I don’t need it. For to end this war and to go to diplomatic way, I don’t need all this historical shit, really.”He also called on the Russians to “apologise” and “recognise they started the war”. Related…’People Will Never Forgive This’: Zelenskyy Lashes Out At Trump Amid Peace TalksZelenskyy Has A Theory As To Why Trump Is In Such A Hurry To End Ukraine WarZelenskyy Launches Surprise Attack On ‘Lost And Fragmented’ Europe Amid Peace Talks Push HuffPost UK – Athena2 – All Entries (Public) Read More