Trump acknowledged that Ukraine would not make Ukraine not concessions of the Russian Federation, but there is a nuance - the media
Currently, European leaders are trying to understand whether the continent will be able to provide Ukraine with help if Washington stops doing so. Sources of journalists said that at the Summit of the European Political Community in Budapest, officials spoke actively about it. At the same time, there is no official statement that the White House will really choose a new tactic.
Even during his election campaign, Donald Trump assured that he could quickly cease fighting in Ukraine, but at the same time he was ambiguous about the continuation of military assistance if he became president. In Europe, it has caused anxiety, because if the US ceases to support Kiev, then this duty will go into the hands of the EU. No one has confidence that it will be going on.
"If we talk about the possibility of peace today, it is because Ukrainians have shown extraordinary courage and because the event supported Ukraine. However, we will see how the script will develop in the coming weeks,"-said the Prime Minister of Italy during a speech in Budapest. Georgia Meloni. The EU is the largest assistance provider of Ukraine, allocated 118 billion euros, reported the King Institute of the World Economy, while the United States has allocated 85 million euros in total.
Over the past year, the flow of money has declined, and Washington has allocated 17 billion euros in 2024, and the EU is almost twice as much. At the same time, the main problem is not even in money, but in military resources, which continue to come from the United States and help to reduce the combat potential of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
"Some people say that Europe should wait for Trump's inauguration in January to find out about his intentions for Ukraine, but others say that leaders do not have such a luxury, and the European Commission should prepare proposals for how the block will react if the US assistance will be reacted Stopped, " - the message reads. Donald Trump has already started the first round of phone calls with European leaders, journalists write.
One of them discussed the question of how the future head of the White House was going to approach the issue of negotiations with Vladimir Putin, said an anonymous high -ranking official. In dialogue, Donald Trump immediately made it clear that he would not be able to just press Ukraine and make her to make concessions of Russia without getting anything in return.
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is a supporter of Trump, said that Europe would not be able to finance Ukraine independently in the "lost war", and Washington, as he thinks, would definitely refuse to support Kiev. A few days earlier, the WSJ newspaper published the details of Trump's peace plan for Ukraine, which refused NATO and freezing the front.
According to journalists, one of the options for peaceful conflict settlement also provides an embargo on the supply of weapons to Ukraine until Kiev agrees to peace talks with Russia. On November 8, it was reported that Donald Trump's arrival will not be an "automatic disaster" for Ukraine and NATO.