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United States military volunteers fighting alongside Ukraine’s armed forces have branded President Donald Trump a "jacka--" and a "coward" over his private phone call with President Vladimir Putin the previous week.
Knewz.com has learned that President Trump spoke to the Russian autocrat on Wednesday, February 12, following which Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the new U.S. position to end the conflict “impressive.”
Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton said in a televised statement that President Trump "effectively surrendered" to Putin and described the call as a cause for celebration in Russia.
"I tell you, they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle in the Kremlin tonight. It was a great day for Moscow," Bolton said.
It has been reported that a Ukrainian military officer called the U.S. an unreliable partner following the call and alleged that this was “the greatest disappointment from the actions of the United States.”
"Your politicians have lost their dignity... Ukraine’s betrayal after Afghanistan will have catastrophic consequences for America’s perception in the world," the officer said in the statement.
It has long been speculated that a settlement regarding the conflict facilitated by the current Donald Trump administration might go in Russia's favor: with the frontline being frozen and Russia retaining the territories it has annexed in Ukraine over the course of the war.
Trump's Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth said in a statement in Brussels on Wednesday, February 12, that "returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is unrealistic, that NATO membership should not be on the table, and that U.S. troops in Ukraine would not be part of any security guarantee," according to reports.
A NATO membership is also something Trump does not see in the cards for Ukraine, as he said previously: "I don’t see any way that a country in Russia’s position … could allow them to join NATO. I don’t see that happening."
Former U.S. military servicemembers fighting on Kyiv's side for nearly three years have also expressed their fury with President Trump over the private call with Putin.
Ryan O’Leary, an Iraq war veteran who leads Chosen Company, one of the largest foreign volunteer units in Ukraine, said in a statement:
"F--- Trump and his sh---y supposed peace deal... Any peace deal is ultimately up to Ukrainians alone, who should be included directly in talks. Neither Trump nor his administration should have any say in how the war ends."
"Only the soldiers and the Ukrainian people should have that say, not some jackass and his jackass cabinet members sitting behind their white picket-fenced houses on a golf course," O’Leary added.
Charles Carter, another US volunteer, who previously served with America’s 101st Airborne Division, said, "Trump is a coward, sucking Putin’s d---."
"The fact that the bullet missed his f---ing face by only an inch is a worldwide travesty," Carter further said, referring to the assassination attempt on the President back in 2024 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has long insisted that peace talks regarding Ukraine must involve officials from Kyiv, and has maintained that his country would not accept any outcome from the recent talks in Saudi Arabia, which involved U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Michael Waltz, and special Mideast envoy Steven Witkoff, along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the Russian foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov.
The talks in Saudi Arabia saw the U.S. and Russian sides broadly agree on three key objectives, according to reports: the establishment of closer relations and economic cooperation, the formation of "a high-level team to support Ukraine peace talks," and "to restore staffing at their respective embassies in Washington and Moscow."
In a statement, Rubio stressed that the talks "marked the beginning of a conversation, and more work needs to be done."
Lavrov seemed to echo Rubio's sentiment as he said that "the conversation was very useful... We not only listened, but also heard each other."