Drone attacks on an unprecedented scale targeted Ukraine and the region of the Russian capital Moscow during the night from Saturday to Sunday, both camps denounced, despite the interview between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which would have asked not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine according to the Washington Post.
They discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and the American president-elect said he hoped to be able to discuss “resolution of the war in Ukraine soon“, according to anonymous sources from the American daily. When questioned, Donald Trump’s entourage did not confirm this first telephone conversation between the two men since Mr. Trump won the presidential election on November 5.
While the conflict between kyiv and Moscow still rages, the Kremlin has said it sees “positive signals“. “Trump, during his election campaign, said that he collects all this through agreements. And that he can get an agreement that brings peace“, said the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in an interview broadcast on Sunday. “He talks about peace, not confrontation, not the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, which favorably distinguishes him from the current administration“, he continued.
Berlin, for its part, announced that Mr. Trump had spoken on Sunday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Both of them “said ready to work together for a return of peace to Europe” said the chancellor’s spokesperson, Steffen Hebestreit.
Donald Trump, who will return to the White House on January 20, has regularly asserted that he can end the war”in one day“, without ever detailing how he would go about it. But This could probably involve an agreement that would require kyiv to cede part of its territory to Moscow.
Russia will have to answer for the war crimes committed in Ukraine and pay for the destruction committed, whatever the future peace agreement, said the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, on Sunday. “Peace, for it to be peace and not just a ceasefire, must be just and lasting“, he stressed.
With the victory of Donald Trump, the question arises of the sustainability of American support, which has allowed Ukraine to resist Russian troops since February 2022. The United States will spend the remaining six billion dollars dedicated to Ukraine before Mr. Trump came to power, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday, warning of the risks linked to the end of American support for kyiv.
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