Published on 06/11/2024 23:25
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Results of the 2024 American presidential election: Ukraine on reprieve after the return of Donald Trump, hostile to kyiv
Results of the 2024 American presidential election: Ukraine on reprieve after the return of Donald Trump, hostile to kyiv
(France 2)
What will happen to valuable American support for kyiv now that Donald Trump has been re-elected President of the United States? On Wednesday, November 6, Ukraine showed concern, awaiting the new president's first decisions.
This is a promise that Donald Trump made numerous times during his campaign regarding Ukraine: “I, president, would settle this war in a day”he declared to his activists. The businessman said he was determined, if re-elected, to call Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to “find a deal”.
But at no time did the Republican outline the contours of any peace plan. Does he intend to force Ukraine to abandon part of its territory for the benefit of Moscow? Although he has not yet confirmed anything, Donald Trump has never stopped communicating with Vladimir Putin and threatened to cut aid to Ukraine, which he considers to be a burden for the United States. The Ukrainian president was in any case one of the first to congratulate his counterpart on his re-election last night in very laudatory terms. But in the streets of kyiv (Ukraine) on Wednesday morning, the news of the Republican's victory caused concern.
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