He President of Russia It opens to the possibility of celebrating a face to face with its Ukrainian counterpart, provided that certain conditions are met. At least in appearance, Vladimir Putinhe would be willing to hold a personal meeting with Volodímir Zelenskia president who, in his public interventions of recent years, has been taking away all patina of political legitimacy, and that is at the forefront of a country whose existence considers something like a historical aberration. Of course, under certain premises, in particular that the so -called ‘sherpas’the officials of each state who prepare a summit or a high level meeting, They have “narrowed the distances,” said the presidential spokesman, Dmitri Peskov.
To be confirmed with facts this declaration -Nada guarantees at the moment that it is not a new dilatory maneuver of the Kremlin leader- would constitute a minimum change of appearance with respect to an issue in which so far, from the beginning of the Russian Ukraine Invasionhe had been intractable: a Meeting with Zelenski At the same level, which would be equivalent to the admission of legitimacy with respect to a president whom Putin not only hates personally, but also is at the head of a state whose existence he considers has been artificially driven from the West. For the Ukrainian part, such an event is essential.
USA and its president, Donald Trumpthey have been broadcasting in recent weeks signs of impatience to the Kremlin and in particular towards Putin, due to their reluctance to embark in good faith in negotiations to stop hostilities and stop the frightening figures of the dead and injured, much higher in the Russian side than in the Ukrainian. “I am very disappointed” with the Russian president, he has come to publicly affirm the American. It is a novelty after his arrival to power last January, after half a year in which Trump and also outstanding members of his administration have repeatedly repeated arguments favorable to the Kremlin narratives And they have downloaded In kyiv The weight of responsibility for the lack of diplomatic advances towards a truce.
Good words
Despite the good words towards the efforts of the New York tycoon in favor of a truce, in practice Putin “has deranged all hope of a significant advance towards peace by adopting dilatory tactics And the insistence on maximalist demands that in fact the end of the Ukrainian State would have been “, he has valued Peter Dickinsondirector of ‘Business Ukraine Magazine’, in an article published in ‘Atlantic Council’. “This has placed Trump in a difficult position who, after months of talking about the perspectives of peace, has finally been forced to admit that Putin has no interest in put an end to war“He continued. Apart from the rhetoric and theatrical gestures such as the sending of two nuclear submarines to the vicinity of Russia, this time Trump seems willing to even go to the facts, and has warned with imposing high tariffs secondary to India, a country that matters from Russia a third of the crude oil it consumes.
With these wimbres, the US leader has dispatched Steven Witkoff already Keith Kelloggtheir Two special envoys for the Ukrainian conflict, to Moscow already kyiv respectively, to give “One last chance” To peace. In the Ukrainian capitalaccording to the local press, there are few expectations that meetings can translate into something substantial on the field, but the hope that Trump’s new aggressive rhetoric can translate into changes in “US support to Ukraine” under Ukraine’s administration “under Trump’s administration, reports ‘The Guardian’.
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