Donald Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine. It is one of the objectives that the president of the United States set out to meet in his first hundred days of mandate, and has already taken the first step for it.
This Wednesday, in a telephone conversation of more than an hour, Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, committed to start “immediate” negotiations To end the war, which lasts more than two years.
Both leaders expressed their desire to stop the deaths caused by the conflict and agreed that their teams begin negotiations as soon as possible.
The American negotiating team will be made up of the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio; the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe; the National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz; And President Steve Witkoff’s special envoy, Trump said in his social Truth profile, his own social network.
After his conversation with Putin, Trump also spoke with the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, who He thanked the attempt to end the warbut it made it clear that any agreement achieved must guarantee the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Trump has always defended that the Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have occurred if he had been at the White House and even, before returning to the presidency of the United States, said he was able to end the conflict with just some calls to Putin and Zelenski.
Can Trump end the war in Ukraine?
The agreement between Trump and Putin is the first step for the opening to negotiations, but its success will depend on the real intentions of Russia and the disposition of Ukraine to comply sovereignty and territorial integrity. Ukraine He will not accept agreements that imply concessions to Russia in their occupied territories. This point is crucial, since Ukraine demands the total withdrawal of the Russian forces of its territory before any formal peace agreement.
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The president of the United States does not see some long -term Ukraine aspirations, such as the country, is protected by NATO’s security umbrella. He affirmed that Ukraine’s aspiration to be part of NATO is not “practice” and considered “unlikely” that the country manages to recover all the territory that Russia has taken from 2014, which includes the Crimean Peninsula.
Another factor that can slow the agreement is The distrust of Europe about Putin’s real intentions. The Russian leader is willing to reach a peace agreement, while his army continues to bombard kyiv. A recent attack with missiles and drones about the capital of Ukraine has left a dead and at least four injured, including a child, which generated great doubts about Russia’s willingness to end the short -term conflict.
In addition, war in Ukraine not only involves Russia and Ukraine, but also NATO and the European Union. The position of the allies of Ukraine It will be key to reach any peace agreement between the two countries.
On the other hand, for great desire Trump has to end the war in two days, the US president You need your government’s support and other actors within the US to establish any agreement. Institutions and leaders of their country, and of Europe could reject an approach to Putin if it is conceived as a surrender to Russia or unnecessary assignments.
Peace agreement or surrender to Russia?
In Brussels, the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, said Thursday that the United States initiatives to end the war in Ukraine They are not “a betrayal” to kyiv. “Without a doubt, it is not a betrayal,” said the politician upon his arrival at the meeting of NATO Defense Ministers held in Brussels.
“The United States has invested in stabilizing those lines of the front after the aggression of Russia. There is no betrayal there. There is a recognition that everyone and the United States are dedicated and interested in peace, a negotiated peace, as the president said Trump, to put an end to the killings, “he said.
However, Belgium Defense Minister Theo Franken said that the framework for a peace plan in Ukraine outlined by the United States is “A victory” for the Russian president and “bad news for the West.”
Speaking to Flamenco VRT public radio, Franken considered that Putin “has always said that he does not want Ukraine to become a NATO member and that he should not have to give up any land he has won.”
