President Donald Trump is upset that President Vladimir Putin is “dragging his feet on negotiations.”

It is baffling and sad that a country (Russian Federation) can start a war against a freedom-loving nation under the guise of “special military operation” and after three years of fighting, wartime deaths, destruction of land beyond recognition, bombing innocent citizens, hospitals, schools, churches, infrastructure, taking of children after killing the parents, that our government would even consider negotiating with this power hungry aggressor, Putin!

Ukraine did not start this war, she defended herself.

The women and youth of Ukraine did not ask to be separated from their homeland, their husbands and fathers, being sent to other countries for safety. Their lives depended on it.

Now Putin wants the eastern borders of Ukraine, as well as Crimea, their only port for access to the world! How can this be fair?

If Putin can do this to Ukraine, he can do this to other countries bordering Russia, and beyond. Ukraine’s only hope and protection is NATO membership, and Putin is threatening nuclear war!

Putin must be told to take his soldiers and military equipment out of Ukraine, Ukraine will receive NATO membership, and he must return the Ukrainian children back to their homeland, and finally reimburse Ukraine for the damage caused to her land; reimburse the United States of America and the European countries who supported Ukraine.

It’s time to take a stand against Putin for his inhumane treatment of Ukraine.

No negotiations, period.

Karen K. Sheptak, Butler