Trump says someone other than Zelensky should negotiate for Ukraine

Trump's remark shifts pressure from battlefield conditions to Kyiv's internal political legitimacy, effectively making the composition of Ukraine's negotiating team a US talking point. That matters most for European allies and for any future settlement architecture, since Washington is signaling it wants a counterpart it considers more pliable. The TPS and intelligence-sharing comments suggest leverage is being applied selectively rather than as a clean break. Whether Kyiv treats this as a demand to restructure its delegation, and whether European partners echo or resist it, is the open question worth watching.