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The recent meetings between representatives from both countries served above all to please Donald Trump, according to the former minister.
About two years later, representatives of Russia e Ukraine returned to meet up recently. Conversations in Istanbul, Türkiye, originated one but, as expected, no sign of pause in the war, ceasefire.
An outcome that Ukrainian soldiers and that was not surprising Dmytro kuleba.
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs presented his perspective: Conversations between Russia and Ukraine were not about a ceasefire-they were about the US president.
“From Donald Trump’s inauguration to recently, all conversations and initiatives have not been about a ceasefire. Keep Trump away from the enemy. To both sides ”.
Kuleba explained in what “Russia was trying to prevent Trump from taking hard measurements and Ukraine was trying to change Trump’s vision upon Ukraine and prevent him from taking the Russian party. ”
Thus, “while everyone talked about ceasefire, in reality, This was all about Trump, Not about the ceasefire, ”summarized the former minister.
The now university professor ensures that, over the past four months, “there was not a single time when we were close to a ceasefire, because that was never the purpose of these initiatives.”
A Victory to Ukrainehe indicates, it would be “to stop war without legally recognizing any loss of territory, nor the right to Russia to decide the future of Ukraine, for example in the NATO or EU.”
Retracting a few months, and remembering between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House Oval Room, Dmytro Kuleba thinks this meeting benefited the president of Ukraine – Especially in the internal popularity, which was before this meeting.
Still on Trump, Kuleba is sure that the US does not want to approve another military aid to Ukraine. THE Shipping Patriot missiles “will simply end”. Your hope is in the European countries.
Dmytro Kuleba also left words about Portugal. He thanked the attempt to influence Brazil and the Portuguese -speaking African countries (Palop). But “it didn’t work.”
Now, it warns, the government of Luís Montenegro must focus on increasing the defense investmentso that “it does not make the basic error that all human beings and nations make, to think that the worst cannot happen to you.”
