Negotiations on Ukraine will enter a “on Monday on Mondaycrucial week“Predicted the United States which put pressure on the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky so that he renounces Crimea in exchange for peace with Russia.
These hopes were expressed by the American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while the fighting gives no sign of appeasement. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, Russia launched an attack of 150 drones and missiles, according to Volodymyr Zelensky, killing four people in eastern Ukraine. And Moscow announced the “libération“Total in the Koursk region, which Ukraine has denied.
I think this week will be crucial
“We are close (an agreement), but not close enough“Said American Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday.”I think this week will be crucial.“Washington did not reveal the details of his peace plan, but suggested freezing the front line and that kyiv concedes Crimea to Russia in exchange for the end of hostilities, which kyiv does not want to hear about. Volodymyr Zelensky’s statements, Donald Trump said he believed that the Ukrainian leader is ready to give up.”I think yes. Crimea was 12 years ago“said Donald Trump to a journalist who asked him if he believed Volodymyr Zelensky ready to”give up“The peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
I want him to stop shooting
The American president has expressed doubts in recent days on Vladimir Putin’s desire to end the war. “”I want him to stop shooting. Sit and sign the agreement“said Donald Trump on Sunday.”We have the basics of an agreement, I think, and I want him to sign it“, He added. For several weeks, Ukrainian troops have been back in decline in this area of the front, the Russian army gradually advancing. Ukrainian forces initially occupied several hundred square kilometers in the Koursk region since August 2024, when they had launched an unprecedented counter-offensive on Russian soil.
They had notably taken control of a pumping station by which the Russian gas passed towards Europe transited. Ukrainian leaders had justified this surprise assault on Russian soil by the desire to have a new card in their game as part of possible peace discussions. Volodymyr Zelensky recently proposed to Russia to agree on “an exchange“Territorial, what Moscow, whose army continues to progress elsewhere on the front, had immediately rejected. Since then, the pocket under Ukrainian control has narrowed, to the point of being reduced to skin of sorrow. Ukraine said on Sunday that his troops continued to fight.
