‘The peacemaker’ is going after Ukraine: Trump now announces a meeting with Zelensky

by Andrea
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'The peacemaker' is going after Ukraine: Trump now announces a meeting with Zelensky

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has loved the shower of global applause that has come to him for promoting a , compromising Hamas and Israel. So, on the cloud of success and in the clouds because he was already on his Air Force One, the Republican has launched a new announcement: on Friday he will receive the president of Ukraine, , at the White House. The peacemaker intends to sow more, to see if he gets the Nobel Prize.

After being asked by journalists accompanying him back to Washington from the Middle East, the president declared that the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could help him with “another” conflict, such as ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ankara was the one between the two parties in the first contacts, just after the first weeks of the invasion, in February 2022, which broke quickly.

Now, since Trump’s return to the White House in January, the dialogue process has been relaunched, but the magnate has not managed to drag along the Russian Vladimir Putin. Although it seemed that the process was being promoted, the Kremlin did not fully commit to the US demands, not even to an initial 30-day truce proposed by Trump.

The American has come to the conclusion that Putin is there while his troops advance on the ground, especially in the east, and has begun to feel annoyed by the Russian’s blows. Maybe now he will get more serious with him, maybe now he will be more generous with Zelensky, whom he even removed from the negotiations at the beginning, as if it were not his territory and his sovereignty that were at stake.

The announcement of the meeting came a few hours after Trump warned Russia that he could authorize the shipment to kyiv if Moscow does not stop its offensive. These long-range missiles would be capable of hitting targets within Russian territory, significantly raising the level of US military support for Ukraine.

During a meeting in kyiv with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, Zelensky stated yesterday that air defense and long-range capabilities will be among the main topics of their talks in Washington. “The main issues will be air defense and our long-range capabilities, to maintain pressure on Russia,” the Ukrainian said.

He also announced that he also plans to meet with representatives of defense and energy companies, as well as members of the US Congress. As he explained, his objective will be to obtain greater support to protect the country’s electricity and gas networks, severely damaged by Russian bombings.

Zelensky’s visit to Pennsylvania Avenue comes after what he described as a “very productive” phone call with Trump on Sunday. Right after her came the warning about the missiles. Putin had previously warned that the delivery of long-range missiles to kyiv would “seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington.”

Zelensky will join a Ukrainian delegation already in the United States, led by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, to carry out preliminary talks with US administration officials and representatives of the private sector.

How is the battlefield?

Zelensky’s visit also coincides with a new increase in Russian attacks against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, on the eve of winter. The State Emergency Service reported that the most intense shelling in recent hours occurred around the port of Odessa, on the , and in the northern region of Chernihiv, where one person died after the impact of drones and missiles.

According to several analysts, Russia seeks to paralyze the Ukrainian electrical system and erode public morale in .

During her meeting with Zelensky, Kaja Kallas reaffirmed European commitment to kyiv and promised to maintain diplomatic and economic pressure on the Putin regime. The Estonian diplomat assured that she is confident that Hungary’s objections to the new package of sanctions against Russia will be overcome, although she acknowledged that the negotiations could extend beyond the next summit of EU leaders.

“In terms of financing, the needs are enormous. We must help Ukraine defend itself so as not to spend even more on repairing the destroyed infrastructure,” Kallas declared. “We are 27 Member States and 27 democracies, so the debates take time… I am sure that, as before, we will reach a decision,” she concludes.

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