United States President, Donald Trump has said that if the war in Ukraine is not stopped now, it could lead or escalate to World War 3, with the visiting French President, Emmanuel Macron insisting that Russia is the aggressor of the war hence Russia must pay damages as part of the negotiations for the peace deal but the US in another meeting at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday joined Russia to vote against a resolution condemning Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Trump and Macron answered questions from the Whitehouse reporters after the French President attended the G7 meeting in Washington on Monday.

President Emmanuel Macron during the press talks corrected the US President, Donald Trump after Trump said Europe would get its money back from Ukraine.

The two presidents spoke to the reporters during a meeting at the Oval Office in the White House in Washington DC, when Trump said Europe was loaning its aid money to Ukraine and they would get the money back.

Macron interjected and said; “No, in fact, to be frank, we paid 60 percent of the total effort and it was loans, guarantees, grants, and we provided real money, to be clear,”

Adding that Europe has billions of Russia frozen assets which member countries in the continent intend to use to get their money back during peace negotiations with Russia.

Macron added that, in respect to international law, European countries in possession of the Russia frozen assets can only use proceeds of the frozen assets while the war is still ongoing but they cannot takeover or take possession of the assets until a peace deal is entered with Russia.

It would be recalled that Trump and his team have been negotiating a minerals revenue-sharing agreement with Ukraine to recoup some of the money that the previous Biden administration had sent to Kyiv in the form of weapons to repel Russia.

Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump have sought to smooth a transatlantic rift on Ukraine, as the US President said Vladimir Putin was willing to accept the presence of European peacekeepers to end the war.

Trump said Vladimir Putin has no objections to European peacekeepers post-peace deal but warned the war could escalate into World War 3 if not resolved.

Trump also stated that he is “helping Ukraine like no one has before.”

Donald Trump said the Ukraine war could end “within weeks” as he met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House to discuss the conflict.

Meanwhile, US joined Russia to vote against a resolution condemning Russia as the aggressor in the war in Ukraine but larger numbers of members of the United Nations on Monday backed voted in favour of the resolution supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity in the face of staunch opposition from Washington, which pushed its own language that declined to blame Russia for the war or mention Kyiv’s borders.

The European-backed resolution marking the conflict’s third anniversary won 93 votes for and 18 votes against, with 65 abstentions.

Washington sided with Moscow, as well as Russian allies Belarus, North Korea and Sudan, to vote against.

Close observers said that the resolution won far less support compared to previous resolutions on the war.

The US drafted another resolution in favour of Russia with the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia calling the US resolution “a step in the right direction” amid a sudden thaw between Russia and the US under Trump.

But France put forward amendments to the US text telling the General Assembly that Paris, along with European countries and Britain, would “not be able to support in its current form.”

The countries, all backers of Ukraine, pushed to reword the US text to say that the “full-scale invasion of Ukraine” has been undertaken by Russia.

We had reported that; following the public criticism of President Donald Trump of the United States that the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a man who has lost touch with his people and a dictator who refused to conduct election for new leader to takeover the affairs of the country, Zelenskyy while asked if he could resign by a journalist at a press conference organised to mark the third year anniversary of war in Ukraine, says he would do that if it would bring peace to Ukraine and he’s ready to do that as exchange for Ukraine to be enlisted as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO. 

We had earlier reported that despite the medical condition that he’s under the high flow of oxygen in the Hospital over double pneumonia, Pope Francis on Sunday, on the eve of the third year anniversary of the war in Ukraine launched by President Vladimir Putin led Russia Government, called on everyone in the world to remember victims of the war in Ukraine, describing the war which started on February 24, 2022 as painful, shameful for all humanity.

Previously, we reported that the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has continued his phone conversations with World leaders with a video and written press statement on Saturday saying that the world leaders must ensure that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin is not allowed to deceive the world again, insisting that Putin has used Russian Army, Intelligent Services and Mercenaries over 30 years to bring deaths to America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Syria, this, Zelenskyy stated after he began special defence campaign with phone conversations with world leaders following strained relationship with one of the countries that has majorly assisted Ukraine in its defence against Russia since 2022 when the war began, United States, US President, Donald Trump who threatened to stop military aid to Ukraine, claiming that Ukraine started the war it knows it cannot win, calling President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a modestly successful comedian and a dictator that deceived the immediate past US President, Joe Biden to commit over $350 billion of US taxpayers money on a war the North America country will not get any profit in return with Ukrainian President accusing Donald Trump of disinformation and saying that Putin led Russia has intensified attacks and launched massive bomb destructions on Ukraine cities and villages during the week of Donald Trump’s outburst.