Ukraine’s President VolodyMyr Zelensky was already facing a difficult week for foreign officials to gather in Europe to talk about his country’s future.
The Trump administration demanded $ 500 billion in Ukrainian minerals, canceled Ukraine’s exemptions for US tariffs, and a major US skepticist to military support for JD VANCE Vice President KYIV for Europe for meeting with Ukraine for a meeting with Ukraine. I was on my way. director.
But on Wednesday, the situation worsened. Trump delivered a harsh evaluation of Ukrainian prospects in a war with Russia. Trump later announced that he had a dialogue with Russia’s Vladimir V. Putin.
The telephone call also spells the end of the US’s efforts to diplomatically seize Russia after a full -fledged invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago.
“He is on the heel,” said Cliff Kupchaan, chairman of EURASIA Group, a risk analysis company located in Washington.
In the last two days, President Trump’s behavior has informed the thawing relationship between the United States and Russia, including the exchange of prisoners with Kremlin, who liberated American teachers. Side line. Trump also called to Ukrainian leaders on Wednesday, but he did not mention how Zelen Ski would recognize at the peace talks in social media posts.
Zelensky will meet with Vance and Secretary of State. President Trump said Marco Rubio at the annual Munich Security Conference on Friday.
Negotiations to end the most deadly war in Europe in many generations will form the future of Ukraine, and the recent development means that some of the territory are likely to remain under Russian occupation.
And they will form the political future of Zelen Ski. He has little choice, but despite his deep skepticism shared by most of the Ukrainians, Putin’s President Putin does not impose discouraged conditions and inflicts more military and economic pressure. It is ready.
Until Thursday morning, it was a drone that exploded with a Russian missile and was a swirling feeling in a city that hits every night.
Political analyst VolodyMyr Fesenko wrote in Facebook that President Putin had postponed the Trump administration for time. “He will not compromise on the end of the war as Trump’s team wants,” he wrote.
President Trump was not the only person who delivered cold news to Ukraine. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told the European Union that Ukraine’s return to the border, just like before Russia’s military invasion began in 2014, is “unrealistic.”
And he added that the United States did not support Ukraine’s goal to join NATO to secure peace settlement.
Zelen Ski played a weak hand before. When Russia’s invasion began, he popped out of the bunker and photographed a selfie video by gathering his country and many people from all over the world to the cause of Ukraine.
Now he is decreasing again in the pivotal moment for his country, sinking in domestic polls, and getting cold shoulders from the most important allies.
Ukraine had a bright place. Shortly after his inauguration, President Trump said that Putin criticized Russia as a war, “destroying” in war.
President Trump’s claim to Ukrainian minerals was expensive to Kiev, but was considered a hopeful signal by Ukrainian officials. The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent visited the Civ and talked about mining rights that began on Wednesday, arguing that President Trump had a US benefit, opening a way to continue military assistance.
In an interview with Fox News, which aired on Monday, President Trump was willing to yield to Ukrainian natural resources, “They agreed to do so. “Otherwise we are stupid. I told them, ‘We must get something. We cannot continue to pay this money. ” ”
It was before Russia and the United States showed their will to work together. On Tuesday, Steve Witkoff, President of Trump’s friend and envoy, flew to Steve Witkoff with Steve Witkoff to Steve Witkoff to Moscow. Kremlin said in return that the United States would deliver Russian cyber crimes. Alexander Bin NickGo back to Russia.
Zelensky said that if the Western allies twice and twice recently provided a security guarantee for the agreement, he is willing to negotiate with Mr. Putin.
Putin sent a signal that Russia would have to face elections at home before he accepted his signature of his peace contract. According to Ukrainian civil servants and security analysts, this demand suggests Russian views on potential three -stage processes for agreement on war. It will lead to the initial ceasefire and the election in Ukraine, and then conceived a binding ceasefire.
Zelensky rejected President Putin’s repetitive claims, and he was an illegal leader and Ukraine rejected repeated claims that he had to raise martial law and open elections. (The Ukrainian election was delayed under the martial law after Russia invaded in 2022. The five -year term of office of Zelen Ski, which expired in May, was extended according to the law.)
Ukrainian officials said they are seeing Russian election demand as part of the elections that unstable the government’s demand for democratic elections and force Ukraine to force Ukraine. They urged the Trump administration not to support the idea.
In an interview with British broadcaster ITV News, which aired last weekend, Prime Minister Jellen Ski said, “It is Russians who raise the election topic because they need a person in Ukraine. “If we stop martial law, we can lose the army. And the Russians will be happy because the qualities of spirit and combat ability will disappear. ”
But in Ukraine, his domestic opponents are preparing for a quiet campaign.
Eurasian analyst KUPCHAN said he could not use Zelensky, a former actor and a crisis, despite his decrease in his position in his dialogue. “He has been proven to be a pretty skilled counter launcher,” he said. “We don’t think we are in the last action of any play.”
Zelensky is preparing to talk with momentum in the main front of the war in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. I preferred Russia for more than a year. It is not clear how long Russia can maintain a huge casualty for Russia.
And Ukraine is talking with a single leverage. Last summer, I controlled hundreds of square miles of Russian territory in Kursk. Gel Lenski said he wants to trade territory in Kursk for the land of Ukraine in Russia.
Negotiations will be advantageous for Moscow if dozens or hundreds of yards continue to progress a day. Then all the delays in accepting Ukraine’s ceasefire conditions will cost Kyiv Territory.
However, according to the Institute for War, a US -based analytical group, Russia’s progress has slowed down due to a monthly captured territorial measurement since November. For example, in January, Russia arrested about 40 square miles from December, the Institute reported. Military analysts warned that the decrease was important.
Anton Troianovski Contribution.
