If the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, rejects, Washington will increase his help to the invaded country. This was assured on Wednesday, President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski. “What I understand is that these are strong measures about Russia. I don’t have the details yet, but we are talking about sanctions and strengthening Ukraine, ”said the president at a press conference. Zelenski referred to these words between the governments of Ukraine and the United States in the negotiation held on Tuesday in the Saudi city of Yeda: kyiv’s support for the proposal of Alto El Fuego of 30 days, and the resumption of US military aid to Ukraine. As the first track of the next steps, the US president, Donald Trump, has advanced on Wednesday that a Washington representation has moved to Moscow.
Washington must now move the initiative to Moscow. So far, Trump has not confirmed Zelenski’s words about the pressures to Russia. In a meeting in the Oval Office with the Irish Prime Minister, Michael Martin, at the White House, the US president simply indicated that he has received “positive messages” about the possibility of a truce and is still pending a response from the Kremlin. He also warned that a negative “can have harmful consequences” for the aggressor country, in apparent reference to its threat of last week of imposing new sanctions of great draft and tariffs on the Russian economy in case the Kremlin does not accept to sit down to negotiate.
Trump confirmed that he has not yet spoken directly with the Putin, although on Tuesday, immediately after in Saudi Arabia the results of the meeting were announced, he had declared that he hoped to speak with him this week. But it was manifested optimistically, as it usually does when it refers to Kremlin. “I hope Russia will be high,” he insisted. “I think for Russia it makes a lot of sense.” He also added that once a truce is achieved “80% of the work will be made” to end the war.
At the moment, the United States has already mobilized its diplomacy to pressure Moscow and try to launch the temporary cessation of hostilities. According to Trump, representatives of his administration are already on their way to Moscow to deal with the Russian authorities. Although the US president did not identify who is part of that delegation, the media of his country had already advanced at the beginning of the week that the White House envoy for especially delicate negotiations, Steve Witkoff, had planned to travel to Russia at the end of the week. Meanwhile, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will participate this Thursday and Friday in the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G-7 in Quebec (Canada), where the Ukraine War will be one of the central issues.
The US president team, Donald Trump, must now raise the initiative to Moscow. It will only be taken from Russia and that need more details from the White House. This one -month truce should serve to negotiate a peace agreement. Zelenski has indicated that it will also be a period in which Washington will discuss with kyiv what future defense measures will be guaranteed to Ukraine.
The Pentagon reactivated on Tuesday night the shipment to weapons and intelligence information. This assistance had been suspended in early March by Trump’s decision, after the anger they had with Zelenski in the White House on February 28. Trump considered that the Ukrainian leader was not in favor of quickly negotiating the end of the war and according to his conditions. To press it, he ordered the cancellation of the transport of the armament that was still to be delivered from the era of his predecessor, Joe Biden, and of the key intelligence information for Ukrainian attack operations. Numerous analysts and military ensure that the suspension of access to these data, partially occupied by Ukraine since 2024.
Zelenski reacted quickly to the cancellation of US aid and making Washington available to negotiate peace “as soon as possible under the strong leadership of President Trump.” The Yeda meeting on Tuesday is the consolidation of this approach. “The ball is now on Russia’s roof,” said US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. Zelenski explained Wednesday that one of the objectives of his support for the high temporal fire is to demonstrate that Ukraine “has all the will for peace” and that Putin, on the other hand, has no intention of ending the war.
“I have emphasized it several times, nobody from us believes in the Russians, we have already gone through this before,” Zelenski said in an implicit reference to prior high -fire agreements agreed with Putin in the past, during the war in Donbás, and that they were breached “the Russians will do everything possible for the disagreement between Ukraine and the US standing, ”added the Ukrainian Head of State.
“If the Russians show that they are ready for the American proposal, as we have demonstrated, no more and no less, then the appropriate solutions will occur. But if they are not ready, then I trust the American part to demonstrate what I have said, ”ha. The Ukraine mission was headed by Andri Yermak, the president’s right hand. Zelenski has assured that the pressure measures on Russia, in case of rejecting the truce, “were discussed by point, although it is soon to talk about it.” The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, held a long telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Narishkin.
Zelenski has reaffirmed in his appearance that Ukraine will never recognize as Russians the areas occupied by the invader. Rubio said Tuesday that in the peace negotiations, kyiv has to assume that he must give territory. The official Ukraine position, expressed by Zelenski himself in recent months, is that it is impossible to recover militarily all the regions that Russia has conquered, but that in no one will renounce its sovereignty because they can be released in the future by diplomatic route.
