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US President Donald Trump.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that any agreement to end the war in Ukraine will have to pass a summit with Russian and Ukrainian counterparts after the bilateral summit on Friday.
“This meeting will pave the way for another”The US president told Fox News on the eve of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putinin Alaska.
To Donald Trump“The Second Meeting”, with Putin and the Ukrainian head of state, Volodymyr Zelensky, “It will be very, very importantbecause it will be a meeting in which they will come to an agreement”.
“And I don’t want to use the term ‘dividing things’, but in a way it is not a bad term. There will be mutual concessions With regard to borders, territories, ”Trump said.
In the same interview, Donald Trump estimated “25%” the risk of failure From the meeting with Putin this Friday.
Kremlin has excluded a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, which claims to make sense only at the end of a negotiating process, When there is agreement regarding the terms for peace in Ukraine.
The bilateral summit in the US state of Alasca will be centered mainly in the Possibilities of Peace in Ukrainethe presence of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to various US media, which cite sources of the White House, Trump can press Putin to obtain a commitment to unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine as the first gesture goodwill for peace.
The newspaper, which cites sources from the US presidency, said Trump’s counselors would consider a success Obtaining this commitment from Putin before the peace conversations in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will participate.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump warned Vladimir Putin that Russia will face “very serious consequences“If a ceasefire is not achieved, although it has assured that its main goal in the expected summit is to listen to the Russian leader and see that progress can be achieved at further meetings.
Between AS Putin’s requirements for an Armistício would be the recognition by Washington and Kiev of the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk e Lugansk as Russian territory, which would cover 30% of the territory that Moscow currently does not control.
Putin today thanked Trump’s “energetic” and “sincere” efforts to end the war in Ukraine and considered that in Alask Nuclear Strategic Weapons Control Agreementreferring to the nuclear disarmament treaty between Russia and the United States, Start III, which expires in 2026.
Putin and Trump will not sign any documents
The Russian presidency indicated on Thursday that it foresees “complex discussions”Among the leaders of the United States and Russia in the expected summit of Alaska, but will not sign any documents.
“It’s not expected. Nothing has been prepared. There will hardly be a document, ”said the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri PeskovSpeaking to Russian public television, regarding the possibility of the two presidents subscribing to a formal text about the war in Ukraine.
The spokesman stated that the Russian side leaves for the meeting with “political goodwill demonstrated by presidents of both countries to solve problems through dialogue“And that” the most difficult questions will be addressed.
When asked if the two leaders plan to discuss a Territorial exchange Between Russia and Ukraine to resolve the conflict, Peskov replied that “obviously, issues related to the solution will be addressed Ukrainian ”, stressing that this“It is a very complex and multifaceted subject“.
The Russian leader “will explain the agreements and understandings achievedAt a joint press conference with the US homologist, Peskov said.
Last week, Kremlin presented to Trump’s special envoy a proposal to cease fire in exchange for territory in eastern Ukraine – a proposal that.
The president warned that the Ukrainians “will not abandon your land to the occupants ”, and that any“ decision that is made without Ukraine will be a decision against peace and He was born dead”.
According to the, to obtain a peace agreement, Donald Trump will be willing to raise sanctionsgiving Putin access to the Ukrainian lithium and even, in the immediate vicinity of Alaska.
