Politico portal sources from the Ukrainian Parliament and American Republican environment claim that four high -ranking collaborators of President Donald Trump led secret negotiations with representatives of the Ukrainian opposition Including the former Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko and leading members of the ex -president Petr Poroshenko, TASR informs.
Discussions were focused on the rapid organization of the presidential election. These are postponed in accordance with the Constitution because the state of war pays the country. Critics of elections at the time of the ongoing conflict claim that they could be chaotic and record Russia. Moreover, many voters have escaped or fighting from the country on the front.
Representatives of Trump’s administration have been publicly indicated for several days that the current President of Volodymyr Greenable should withdraw if it does not join the US initiative to quickly end the war even at the cost of significant concessions in favor of Russia. These The challenges intensified especially after last week’s sharp exchange of views between Trump and Greeding in an oval office, After which Trump suspended military assistance for Ukraine.
According to Politico’s sources, the US goal is to make elections after the ceasefire is closed, but before the start of full -fledged peace negotiations with Russia. The idea of the presidential election is also promoted by the Kremlin, who considers Zelensky to be illegitimate president. According to the portal, people around Trump are convinced that Greeding elections will lose.
Both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko have repeatedly rejected the idea of elections at the time of the ongoing struggles, as well as the Mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko. “Poroshenko’s people and Julija (Tymoshenko) talk to Trump’s surroundings and are in the position of people that would be easier to work with and agree with many things that Zelensky is not,” said the politico unnamed foreign policy expert from the Republican Party.
The Politico actors concerned addressed with a comment request. Tymoshenko’s team refused to comment. Poroshenko’s Party European Solidarity has re -declared that the elections should only be held after the war. However, neither party refuted the meeting with the Trump team.
The portal recalls that Although Trump hopes for the Greenan weaning, its popularity is much higher than Tymoshenko and Poroshenko. In a survey conducted by the British survey agency Survation this week after the White House dispute, 44 percent of respondents in Ukraine said it would support Greeny in the presidential election.
His most powerful union, which lags behind him by more than 20 percentage points, is Valery Zalužnyj, former head of the Armed Forces and the current Ambassador to Britain. Greenland’s predecessor Poroshenko would be supported by about 10 percent of Ukrainians and Tymoshenko less than 6 percent.
