Neutralize Ukraine: what Putin has achieved during talks with Trump

There is no complete transcript of the conversation, so in the estimates of the negotiations can only rely on information from both presidents and the opinions of experts.

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Orysia Lutsevich, expert on Ukraine at the Chatham House analytical center, described Putin's proposal as "a kind of goodwill gesture to interest Trump and get a greater prize: the rejection of the United States from Ukraine. " And at the same time from Europe. US negotiations directly with the aggressor country and the good-natured tone of the White House restore the legitimacy of the country whose aggression and war crimes have left it isolated and suffered from the event.

The only positive is that negotiations are still ongoing, but European politicians did not look too inspired. The leaders of France and Germany have confirmed their continued support for Ukraine. "We will continue to support the Ukrainian army in her resistance war," French President Emmanuel Macron said, speaking with German President Olaf Scholts.

And the former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFol, noted that everyone wants to end the war, but the methods that Trump tries to achieve it, "encourage an even greater war, even greater aggression. " He made a gloomy forecast, assuming that the only cause of ceasefire could be that Trump will make serious concessions to Putin, despite the fact that he is an aggressor.

"The ceasefire is achieved because President Trump and his team forced the Ukrainians to do so by reducing military assistance, reducing intelligence assistance, and they gave Vladimir Putin - still everything he wanted," the diplomat summarized. And former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said even more radical, saying that Putin rejects the unconditional ceasefire and just wants to continue to bomb and kill Ukrainians. "He wants Ukraine to be disarmed. He wants Ukraine to be neutralized.

He wants to make Ukraine a vassal state of Russia. He does not talk. He laughs at us," Johnson wrote. German Minister Boris Pistorius has already stated that the consent of the Russian President to stop the attack on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure "means nothing". "The number of attacks on civilian infrastructure on the first night after that, as a decisive and important phone call was expected, did not decrease.

Putin is playing the game here, and I am sure that the US president will not be able to sit and watch for a long time," said Boris Pistorius. And Matthew Schumiker, a former US intelligence officer and national security specialist, warned that Trump was at risk of playing Putin, allowing Russia to apply the "classical Soviet tactics of the Cold War" - a delay in negotiations.

"During the Cold War, American leaders often resisted attracting such protracted processes, realizing that they served for councils of slowing down mechanisms for regrouping or using levers. Trump risks getting into this historical trap, since tightening of negotiations will allow Russia to strengthen its positions. Allies, "Schuzer is convinced.

In favor of this statement, the post of former President of the Russian Federation and the head of the Russian Rada Dmitry Medvedev, who stated that only Moscow and Washington were present in the dining room, and in the menu "Brussels sprouts, British fish with potatoes, Paris Rooster. Military analyst Michael Clark believes that the fact that Zelensky did not participate in Trump and Putin's conversation, testifies a lot.

"In diplomatic circles there is an old saying:" If you are not at the table, you're on the menu. And believe me, Ukraine is on the menu, "he says. And now the negotiations of the US and Russian are beneficial only to these two countries. Both sides can declare his victory - Trump that has come to peace, but Putin can continue the ground war of Mark Stone, an American correspondent in Washington.

Fire and rightly declare that Putin has closer Trump Special Representative Stephen Witcoff, whom Putin was forced to wait for 8 hours before taking it in the Kremlin, commenting on the President's telephone conversation, stated that "it was an unite of two great leaders for the benefit of humanity. " And he repeated the patron's words that he wants peace.

And Rebecca Coffler, who previously worked at the US military intelligence agency, believes that Trump and Putin are "dancing the Waltz of Diplomacy" without actually trusting each other. She assumed that after the conversation, both presidents would report positive progress without any specific details, continuing each of their policies. However, Trump asked to prepare US sanctions in case they needed for additional pressure on Russia according to US Finance Minister Scott Bessent.

He stated that the level of sanctions applied by Joe Biden's administration to Moscow was six of 10 points. But Trump is ready to raise them to the maximum level if Putin fails to plant at the negotiation table. The only question is that Donald Trump will consider successful negotiations with Putin. And how much it is interested in preserving Ukraine as such.

So far, he was playing against him, and the head of the White House even had to be groomed on how soon he would finish the war, realizing that a period of 24 hours is unrealistic. Recall that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not discuss the provision of US military assistance to Ukraine during a telephone conversation on March 18.