“Putin wants to neutralize Ukraine. I think that’s his goal”, Assured, Friday, May 9 in Franceinfo evening, the former French ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty, research director at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS), while a summit of European leaders supporting kyiv in front of the Russian invasion is planned, according to Volodymyr Zelensky, Saturday in Ukraine.
Vladimir Poutine “understood that he could not invade” l’Ukraine, “Because he is not very much militarily”estimates Jean de Gliniasty. He underlines that Ukraine “is united in his fight against the Russian invader”, what has “helped to tighten the ranks” and do “From Ukraine a real country”. But the Russian President “Hope to be able to put again” l’Ukraine “A little under guardianship, that is to say neutralize it”, analyzes the former ambassador. The chief of the Kremlin wants to achieve his goal, including “Through peace. This is why it is not played. Maybe he will accept Trump’s proposals.”
“The Russians did not say no, a priori, but they laid conditions such as in fact, this truce is unacceptable.”
Jean de Gliniasty, former French ambassador to Russiain franceinfo evening
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The American president called on Thursday to a “Unconditional ceasefire of 30 days” a Ukraine. “If Trump talks again about the 30 -day truce, it is in fact it was sensitive to European arguments” who have “Gathered in Paris” and that they will reformulate “Maybe tomorrow, when they meet in kyiv”, Imagine the specialist in Russia. According to him, Europeans “Dire will say, ‘you need a prerequisite, you must first the 30 -day truce’”.
For Jean de Gliniasty, Europeans and France returned to the negotiation game. “I think we can say it”. “The fact that Trump takes up the 30 -day proposal, which he agrees to discuss it with Europeans, it obviously shows that Europeans are again in the game. And that is partly due to the very active diplomacy of France.” But the former ambassador judges “quite possible” that Donald Trump ends up getting bored.
“JD Vance, the vice-president, said, [Marco] Rubio has repeated it on several occasions: if it does not work, they will withdraw “, advance Jean de Gliniasty. “They will not take their clicks and slaps and will not repatriate the around 100,000 soldiers they have in Europe. It will be more progressive”nuance the former ambassador. But according to him, the Americans will then “Leaving the responsibility for conflict management to Europeans is obvious.”
