FT: Putin opens to freeze the entrance line and block the invasion | EUROtoday

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“We do not intend to publicly discuss the details,” the secretary of American state, Marco Rubio, clarified final week, referring to the proposals made by Washington for a composition of the battle between Russia and Ukraine: “As soon as these things end up in the media, the initiative goes into pieces”. Yesterday in Moscow the spokesperson of the Kremlin held the identical line, answering a query from the Izvestija newspaper: “If someone here is aware of the plan, he did not make him public,” stated Dmitrij Peskov signing.

Yet, it could be exactly Vladimir Putin the transfer round which the American initiative revolves: based on what the British Financial Times wrote final evening, the Russian president could be able to freeze the present line of the entrance, blocking the invasion of Ukraine and taking a step again in comparison with the declare to overcome the 4 Ukrainian areas partially occupied by the Russians solely, however already annexed to the Federation.

The sources of the British newspaper hint the “offer” of Putin to the final assembly with Steve Witkoff, the correspondent of Trump who based on the Cremlin Councilor Jurij Ushakov, nonetheless, is already about to return to Russia today. On this foundation, American diplomacy tries to speed up, put to the tightening by Donald Trump’s impatience that on Easter day had seen “good chances” to reach at an settlement already inside this week. But as Peskov stated to FT, “the work is complex and cannot be done in public. It is difficult to expect immediate results ».

This is confirmed by the fact that Wednesday in London Rubio should have strengthened the rapprocomy to European diplomacy by confronting the foreign ministers and the National Security Councilors of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Ukraine, after the meeting of last week in Paris who had leaked a certain optimism by the French organizers. But last night Rubio’s spokesman, Tammy Bruce, surprised that the American secretary of state canceled the journey. The meeting, Bruce said, will continue as expected, with the correspondent for Ukraine Keith Kellogg to represent the United States.

The fear of the Europeans, writes Financial Times, is that Putin convinced Trump to impose all Russian requests as a accomplished fact in Kiev. The rumors on the level of the White House circulated in recent days speak of a possible recognition of the Russian control over the Crimea by the USA, and an American availability to loosen the penalties against Moscow, excluding the possibility of a Ukrainian adhesion to NATO. To this the New York Post added more details: the “Trump plan” would include the deployment in Ukraine – but not on the front line – of a contingent of European countries with a “stabilizer” role to respond to the request for security guarantees to which Ukrainian, as Rubio said, “has the correct like every nation on this planet”. Compliance with the ceased the hearth, nonetheless, could be monitored by a fee financed by the United States and composed of Russian, Ukrainian representatives and a 3rd nation that isn’t a member of NATO.