Igor Gielow
SAO PAULO, SP (Folhapress)-Pressured by Russia, dissatisfied with the lack of objectivity of US contacts, President Donald Trump personally entered the field and spoke on Wednesday (12) with colleagues Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelenski about opening of a negotiation to end the Ukraine War.
In the same fourth, his new Secretary of Defense suggested the sharing of Ukraine as a result of the conflict, considering the unrealistic pre-2014 borders.
The Republican first called the Russian, this time officially: over the weekend, he had said he had talked to Putin several times, which was denied by several people linked to Kremlin, as Folha de S.Paulo showed on Monday (10).
In Truth Social, his own platform, the American said he woke up with Putin “having their teams starting to negotiate immediately.” Kremlin confirmed the contact and said the Russian President invited Trump to visit Moscow.
“Each of us spoke about the forces of our respective nations and the great benefit that we will have one day when we work together. But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths that are occurring in the war between Russia and Ukraine, ”he wrote.
Then the American called Zelenski, with whom he also maintained a recent shot. “The conversation was very good. He, like President Putin, wants peace, ”he wrote. The Ukrainian confirmed, in naturally more contained terms.
“We talked about opportunities to get to peace, we discussed our readiness to work together,” Zelenski wrote in the X, adding that this included “Ukraine’s technological abilities, including drones and other advanced industries.”
Earlier, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, had given a dick horse in the US public speech about the war, admitting that Ukraine would have to be content with territorial losses and basically discarding her admission to NATO, the Military Alliance of 32 members headed by Washington.
Visiting his NATO colleagues in Brussels, he said, “We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we have to begin to recognize that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic goal. Seeking this will only prolong the war. ”
There are 180 degrees of turn. So far, as far as behind the scenes this was a secret of police, no high American authority had been clear on the subject. By citing 2014, he gives cheap what the international community had been absorbed before the war began almost three years ago: the annexation of Crimea, promoted that year by Putin.
Hegseth went further. “The US does not believe that Ukan’s adhesion to NATO is a realistic result of a negotiated agreement [para o fim da guerra]”He said, placing in public what western diplomats have been talking about for over a year.
So far, NATO’s speech has always been to promise the place for NATO while providing weapons for Kiev’s defense of its territories. But the US is, by far, the largest contributors of the account: of the $ 715 billion of purely military aid given by 42 allies from Ukraine until the end of October, according to the Kiel’s World Economy Institute (Germany), R $ 358 billion are Americans.
With the change of tide in the US, the minority members remain to adapt. Present at the meeting in Brussels, French chancellor Jean-Nooel Barrot said Europe would continue to offer Zelenski security guarantees, even without immediate entry to NATO.
Negotiation includes several actors
The negotiation on the American side, according to Trump, will involve the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, National Security Counselor Michael Waltz and special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff, who dealt with the agreement now in crisis of ceasefire in Gaza, was in Russia this week to finalize the release of Marc Fogel, an American arrested in the country since 2021
Trump and Hegseth’s lines follow Moscow’s bad reaction to the early openings of the Ukrainian game by Americans. Moscow had been counting on several demonstrations indicating an alignment between the new president and Putin, but with caution.
This has become irritation in the last two weeks, when a myriad of uncoordinated contacts between Americans and Russians began. Folha spoke to a person close to Kremlin who was sought by a well -known Republican last week.
According to his report, corroborated by other people in a privileged position, it was clear that Trump did not indeed have a plan, the more to end the war in 24 hours, as he had promised -after, expanded the deadline up to six months.
Putin reaped the impression that his colleague was closer to Kiev than it seemed, besides the public rusts, and made it clear in conversations of his team with the Americans. Braking the negotiation, sought to improve his position, and it seems that he had some success.
On the other hand, the public approach of Kiev with Washington follows. Zelenski accepted Trump’s proposal to negotiate pregnancy and future military support in exchange for delivering strategic minerals, the so-called rare land used in the state-of-the-art electronic industry.
Trump spoke in unrealistic $ 500 billion in ores, but this is part of his negotiating tactic.
American Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was on Wednesday in Kiev to discuss the idea and suggested that the deal could help ensure Ukrainian security after the war. How to do this, since most ore deposits are in the area occupied by the Russians, it is a mystery.
On the other hand, there are goodwill movements from Kremlin. The ally Belarus, for example, had three political prisoners, one of them, on Wednesday.
Conversations migrate to Germany
The following stage will be the traditional Munich security conference, which will take place from Friday (14) to Sunday (16) in the German city. Vice President JD Vance and Hegseth will be there, as well as Trump’s war negotiator Keith Kellogg.
They had already released meetings with Zelenski, who should attend, and the announcement of peace options in the region. It seems that Trump, looking for another series of headlines to supplant the previous cycle of news with his name at the top, went on.
The problem, as connoisseurs of the Russian side negotiation told the report, is that time is different in an active war with so many variables. While the diplomatic ballet ran on Wednesday, for example, Kiev recovered from a tough missile attack, which left at least one dead man.
