Trump’s ultimatum in Zelensky: he can have peace or conflict three extra years | EUROtoday

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“Ukraine is ready to negotiate, but not to surrender.” He wrote it yesterday on X Yulia Svyrydenko, vice premier and minister of the Economy of Ukraine, responding to the peace plan that Donald Trump would have appreciated to announce the primary three months to the White House by the top of the month to crown with a hit. The American initiative, nevertheless, runs too shortly, asking Kiev greater than the president Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to grant when it offers for the American recognition of Moscow management over the Crimea, Anna unilaterally to the Russian Federation in 2014. “Our people – wrote Svyrydenko – will not accept a frozen conflict disguised as peace”.

But Trump’s persistence doesn’t go an excessive amount of for the delicate. The acceleration that the American president would wished to present the negotiations to the negotiations that yesterday in London the international ministers of the United States, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, France and Germany outlined a typical place on the extent on which Trump’s correspondent for Russia, Steve Witkoff, would then go to Moscow to seek advice from Vladimir Putin. Zelensky’s “no” on Crimea as a substitute pressured the American secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to cancel the journey to London, whereas Trump returned to take it out with the Ukrainian president: “Nobody asks him to recognize Crimea as a Russian territory -Trump wrote on Truth Social -. These are the incendiary declarations like these that make it so difficult to conclude this war, they only prolong the massacres. (Zelensky) can have peace, or it can fight another three years before losing the whole country. I have nothing to do with Russia, but I want to save 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers per week. We are very close to an agreement, but the “playing cards with out playing cards” must finally accept it ».

Despite the warning of the American vice -president JD Vance, who yesterday from India returned to threaten the withdrawal of the United States from the negotiation in the absence of concrete results, a short meeting between Zelensky and Trump could be made possible by the presence of the two presidents in Rome next Saturday, on the occasion of the funeral of Pope Francis. According to informed sources, the conflict in Ukraine would be at the center of informal interviews that would also involve French president Emmanuel Macron and British premier Keir Starmer.

Meetings that could serve to reduce distances. According to the rumors released in these days on various media, in addition to the recognized crimea de jure by the United States, the Trump plan provides for a de facto recognition of control over the other four occupied Ukrainian regions; Ukrainian renunciation of NATO; the withdrawal of economic sanctions. Conditions for which Putin would agree to stop the invasion “renouncing” control over the totality of the regions invaded.

The American proposals become more smoky about the security guarantees recognized to Ukraine, entrusted to a European stabilization contingent and a joint Russian-Ukraine team of monitoring the front line, flanked by a third country not part of NATO. “If we’re not assured of the belonging to NATO – explains the vice -premier Svyrydenko – Ukraine asks for binding safety ensures, able to stopping future assaults and making certain lasting peace”.