At the same time, even the idea of organizing a direct meeting between Putin and Zelensky, which Trump hoped, looks unlikely in the near future. Military analyst Michael Clark said in his weekly interview on Wednesday that the prospect of such a meeting is now extremely doubtful. One of the main reasons, he called the position of the Russian President, who does not recognize the legitimacy of the Ukrainian leader.
"He says Zelensky is the leader of the fascist regime, and I am not going to meet you," Clark explained. According to him, Putin allows the conclusion of a peace agreement at the level of foreign ministers, but this proposal has not found support from either Trump or Zelensky. "It seems that Trump sees the logic of the need to meet Putin and Zelensky, where he will join them and reduce them both together. But Putin said that he would not categorically do it," the analyst added.
Michael Clark also emphasized that the current diplomatic activity is mostly focused on finding the perpetrators of the negotiations. In his opinion, all policy is now reminiscent of the game of accusation: if Trump is responsible for Zelensky and European partners, the United States may limit Ukraine support or intelligence cooperation. If the blame is considered Putin or distributed it between the two leaders, the consequences for international policy will be different, the expert emphasized.
It should be noted that on August 28, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the absence of a meeting between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. In addition, the media reported that after the meeting of Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin on August 6, the former US President tried to advance the negotiations on the end of the war in Ukraine, based on the report of his envoy Stephen Witcoff about allegedly possible concessions to Russia.
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