The US president, Donald Trump, increases the pressure on the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski. After Friday for criticizing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on Monday he warned him that “the United States will not tolerate much more” his alleged lack of interest in achieving a peace agreement. At the same time, the White House raises rewards to the aggressor country, Russia, and examines the possibility of eliminating some of the sanctions that Moscow imposed during the war, as Reuters has advanced.
The, in which European leaders wrapped Zelenski and tried to penetrate a peace plan to which Washington can join, does not seem to have made great dent in the attitudes of the Republican, at least in public. Nor did those repeated, the condition that the US president demands to resume his contacts. While Trump makes it clear that he maintains his suspicions towards his Ukrainian counterpart and his true intentions about war -he even seems to play with the idea that Zelenski has to leave his position -, the White House works in a plan that could raise sanctions to Russia, in a new step in the approach between the two governments and their negotiations to, according to that information from the news agency, which cites a high person affair.
The Presidential Office has asked the State and Treasury departments to prepare a list of the sanctions that could be eliminated. That list would be presented to the Russian representatives in the next meetings between delegations of the two countries to deal with diplomatic and economic relations. From the call between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in mid -February, sent from both governments have met at least twice. The first, in Riad, was led by the heads of the respective diploma, Serguéi Lavrov and Marco Rubio. The second took place last week in Türkiye.
According to Reuters, the sanctions that the US departments consider withdraws include some against various Russian entities and individuals. It is not clear what Washington could get from Moscow in exchange for that step.
Trump, who promised during the US electoral campaign to end the war in 24 hours, has adopted much more favorable positions towards Russia in the negotiation process. At no time has he advanced what he plans to demand Putin, who has described as “very intelligent” and “a genius”, while he has been greatly critical of kyiv. The bad relations with Ukraine were revealed at its maximum last Friday, when the Republican and his vice president, JD Vance, lashed out at the cameras against Volodimir Zelenski, which they demanded that he was more grateful to the United States and accused of not having a will to peace, after President Ukraine denounced that Putin has systematically breached his commitments.
That grabbed in front of the press, unprecedented in recent diplomatic history, occurred during a meeting that sought to approximate positions between Washington and kyiv. Both leaders had planned to have participated in the signing of an agreement for the joint exploitation of Ukrainian mineral resources, that the Republican Administration said it would link the two economies and give the United States a reason to defend Ukraine. But Trump ordered Zelenski to leave the White House and the agreement was unproven.
This Monday, the US president, and seemed to raise the possibility that the Ukraine – who had come to call “dictator without elections” two weeks ago, during the negotiations of that agreement – he marked his position.
In a message on social networks, the Republican has referred to the statements of his counterpart in which he affirms that “peace is still far” to ensure: “This is the worst statement it could have made, and the United States will not bear it much more!” Trump added: “This guy does not want peace as long as he has the American support, but Europe, at the meeting he had with him, has clearly stated that he cannot do the job without the US.”
Later, in an appearance before the press in the Roosevelt room of the White House, and an agreement with Ukraine, which will have the approval of European nations, because that is important. ” But in apparent reference, again, to Zelenski, he pointed out: “Someone may not want to make an agreement, and if someone does not want an agreement that person will not be there for a long time. He is not going to pay attention for a long time, because I think Russia wants an agreement and the Ukrainian people want an agreement, they have already suffered a lot. ”
Trump celebrated a meeting outside his official agenda with his state secretaries, Marco Rubio, and Defense, Pete Hegseth, as well as with his National Security Minister at the White House to deal with on the next steps to take about the war in Ukraine after the scolding in the Oval Office. Some American media had pointed out that in this Monday the continuity would be considered – or not – of the military aid of the United States approved in the era of Joe Biden that was still missing.
In his statements, Trump said the matter had not been raised. And he lets know that he will announce the future of the economic agreement with Ukraine during his speech to both Congress Chambers – sympathy to the State of the Union – this Tuesday. Right now, he stressed, intense diplomatic conversations are being developed and everything is in a very vague situation. “I can tell you one thing right now and discover that you have been old as soon as you return to the oval office,” he said.
