The president of the United States, Donald Trump, will speak this Monday with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelenski, at the beginning of an international round of telephone conversations that the US president will undertake to end the bloodbath that is the war of Ukraine.
As Trump assured in Truth Social, the conversations will begin at 10.00, local time of Washington DC (16.00 in Peninsular and Balearic Islands). “The calls on the call will be to stop the massacre,” he continued. “Then I will talk to Ukrainian President Zelenski.”
In addition to Putin and Zelenski, Trump will also talk to NATO leaders in what, he expects, is a “productive day.” Trump expects, in the best case, “a high fire and the end of this violent war, which should never have happened.”
This Friday, the representatives of Ukraine and Russia have met in Istanbul for the first time in three years after days of pressure from Ukraine to get a high fire. After less than two hours, the parties agreed to exchange 2,000 prisoners. A meeting in which a climate of distrust reigned and that initially was going to have the participation of both Putin and Zelenski, although it was finally known that the Russian would not go.
Trump was comprehensive with the absence of Putin. “Why should he go if I am not?” He wondered before the journalists during his trip to Qatar. Later, he added that there would be no preview in peace conversations until he himself did not meet with the Kremlin leader: “Nothing will happen until Putin and I meet, okay?”
Meanwhile, the European Union aspires that the United States joins its pressures to Russia, as could be seen after the statements of the last days of leaders such as the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, who assured this Friday to have seen “signs of President Trump that they are ready to put more sanctions on the table if Russia is not ready to reach an agreement”. “Until now, he is not,” he added.
According to several sources, the envoys of the Kremlin have claimed, as a condition for a fire, that the Ukrainian army retires from the parts of the Lugansk, Donetsk, Jersón and Zaporiya regions annexed by Moscow, which the Russian army does not completely control.
In addition, as explained by sources present at the meeting to the journalist of The Economist Oliver Carroll, before the refusal of the kyiv delegation to assume these demands, the Russian delegation has threatened to annex another two provinces apart from the four occupied: Sumi and Járkov.
For his part, the spokesman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Gueorgui Tikhii, has made it clear that the Russian part had expressed “unacceptable things”, without going into more details. Sources of the Ukrainian delegation have also lamented that the Russian demands were “out of all reality” and “go much further” of any scenario discussed above, according to several media.
Source: www.eldiario.es
