On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone for one and a half hours. It was a conversation that Sergei, the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, later described as “deep and meaningful”. On the same day, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid NATO Partners on the corner of America’s new Ukraine policy.
It falls on a leakage of a leakage by Ukrainian online news outlet Strana, publishing details of the fact that what he claimed was the US “100 -day Shanti Yojana” for Ukraine. The plan has not been confirmed.
But how does Trump’s administration envisage peace? There is observation here.
Regional concessions for Russia?
If the information leaked from Strana.Today is to be believed, then a ceasefire in Ukraine should be till April 20. This will free the war in the eastern Ukraine, but certainly requires a complete return of Ukrainian soldiers from the Russian region.
The plan clearly forces Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelancesi to recognize the Russian sovereignty on the Russian-Quenic regions. So far, Zelansky has rejected this demand.
However, on Wednesday, at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters, Hegseth Sugsted said that returning to Ukraine’s earlier -2014 borders, before Russia illegally canceled the Crimean Peninsula, what “unrealistic The purpose was “and more suffering.
Therefore, it is quite likely that the US will formally call on Ukraine to recognize areas that are free to Russia.
Closing the door on NATO membership?
Hegseth has discovered that any lulling peace was to include “strong security guarantee to ensure that the war would not resume.”
Hey said that they should be supported by “competent European and non-European soldiers”. According to Strana.Today, thesis soldiers will monitor a demilitered buffer zone with frozen frontline after a ceasefire.
The Trump administration does not look at American troops on Ukrainian soil. Hegseth said that the US “did not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic result of the disposal of a conversation” and suggested that if the soldiers were “posted as a pepper for Ukraine at any point” , So they should be declared as a part of a non.
If the plan becomes official, Ukraine may see strict neutrality in the future.
Trump has ‘real interest’ in peace
After Donald Trump’s phone call with his Russian counterpart on Wednesday evening, he expressed his desire to engage in peace talks. Zelansky, with whom the US President later spoke over the phone, said that he had “very noun noun talks” and can work together to bring “real peace closer to the” real interest “of the US President. “Expressed his gratitude to”. Hey said that it is important that somehow will “strengthen” Ukraine’s security.
According to the details leaked on Strana.Today, the first direct interaction between Putin and Zelanski will be around 1 March. Trump wants to establish the International Peace Conference in the near future, and arrange to mediate through a peace plan. Major global powers. The details must have been ready by 9 May.
After his phone call with Putin, Trump told reporters that the two would visit each other, and suggested that they would meet for talks in Saudi Arabia.
American Marginal European Union
America’s NATO partners have been completely surprised by Trump’s latest behavior. He hoped that the details of his peace plan would be revealed and discussed at the Munich Suraksha Sammelan, which starts from Friday. But Trump clearly did not coordinate his phone call with Putin with any of his European colleagues.
In the European Union, as well as in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, the concern is increasing that the future conversation about a permanent peace plan for Ukraine will completely bypass the European Union and Ukraine. According to Strana.Today, the European Union will be asked to cover a large part of the reconstruction cost, which is about $ 500 billion (€ 480 trillion), but it is not clear how much political will be said in this case .
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Europe should not be forced to “sit on the child’s table”. German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock warned against the decisions being “on Ukraine’s head”.
Experts criticize American peace plans
Many western and Ukrainian security experts are important for leaked schemes, and the American public stance, both Wasler left several positions – most of which, recently, were considered Western consensus – in favor of Russia.
German military expert Carlo Masala told German Picture Daily that Putin effectively “conquered this war” because he informed “getting” ” [US] To move away from this struggle.
Former Russian diplomatic Boris Bondrev, who lives in exile and is an outspoken critic of Putin, told German TV news channel NTV to “wanted Trump to” give Putin to Putin and end the war that he wants. ” He said that the US President and his close colleagues “Just Putin are not aware of.”
On 9 May, leaked by Strena. As the time frame of concluding a peace plan, it is therefore important. In Russia, it is the day that recalls the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945.
This article was the original published in German.