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10/3/25 08:33 (UTC)Donald Trump said Ukraine “may not survive” as the White House put pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to give up territory seized by Russia.
Ahead of the start of peace talks in Saudi Arabia this week, Mr Trump suggested Ukraine may cease to exist as a sovereign state.
Mr Zelensky has been told he must show he is willing to cede land occupied by Russia if he wants Washington to lift its ban on weapons and intelligence sharing.
The US president has repeatedly called for Ukraine to sign a minerals deal that would give the US access to 50 per cent of Ukraine’s mineral wealth, which may be signed as early as this week.
Mr Trump has privately decided that the deal will not be enough to restart the flow of military assistance and intelligence, sources in Kyiv told The Telegraph.
On Sunday night Mr Trump suggested that the pause on sharing military intelligence with Ukraine could be lifted.
Speaking to reporters, he said “we just about have” when asked if he would end the pause.
He is now demanding that Mr Zelensky agrees to give up territory to Russia – something the Ukrainian president has said he will only consider as a means of joining Nato, which Washington has ruled out.
Mr Trump also wants Mr Zelensky to move towards holding elections in Ukraine, which have been suspended since Russia’s invasion in 2022, and possibly step down as leader before lifting the weapons freeze.
He said on Sunday that the Ukrainian president had taken money from the US “like candy from a baby” and again criticised his counterpart for not being “grateful”.
Asked if he felt comfortable that he had “walked away” from Ukraine by suspending US aid and intelligence sharing, Mr Trump replied: “It may not survive anyway,” in an apparent reference to Russia’s rapid gains on the battlefield in recent days.
Mr Trump has steadily been exerting pressure on Ukraine to agree to the American terms ahead of the critical meeting this week.
The withdrawal of military aid and intelligence is already having an effect on the battlefield, with F-16 fighter jets donated to Ukraine by the US thought to have been left without effective radar.
The Institute of War Studies, an influential think tank in Washington, said on Sunday that it was “notable” that Ukraine has not been able to shoot down missiles from Russia in recent days.
It added Russia was “intensifying offensive operations” in parts of the front line “in order to capitalise” on the cessation of US aid, with some 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers at risk of being encircled in the Kursk region as Russia bears down on the only escape route.
The withdrawal of military aid and intelligence is already having an effect on the battlefield, with F-16 fighter jets donated to Ukraine by the US thought to have been left without effective radar.
The Institute of War Studies, an influential think tank in Washington, said on Sunday that it was “notable” that Ukraine has not been able to shoot down missiles from Russia in recent days.
It added Russia was “intensifying offensive operations” in parts of the front line “in order to capitalise” on the cessation of US aid, with some 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers at risk of being encircled in the Kursk region as Russia bears down on the only escape route.
The withdrawal of military aid and intelligence is already having an effect on the battlefield, with F-16 fighter jets donated to Ukraine by the US thought to have been left without effective radar.
The Institute of War Studies, an influential think tank in Washington, said on Sunday that it was “notable” that Ukraine has not been able to shoot down missiles from Russia in recent days.