In an interview given to the BBCBryan Lanza, a close adviser to Donald Trump, said the United States' goal was “peace and an end to the massacres” in Ukraine.
The decisions that Donald Trump will make regarding the war in Ukraine are particularly anticipated. During his campaign, the 47th President of the United States claimed to be capable of ending the conflict in Ukraine in just “24 hours”without giving details. But while the billionaire has not yet been invested, one of his former advisors has revealed the potential contours of this peace plan.
Bryan Lanza, a Republican strategist who worked on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, said the future government's priority is “will focus on bringing peace to Ukraine rather than allowing the country to reclaim territories occupied by Russia”reveals the BBC .
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And in particular that of Crimea. «Yes, yes President Zelensky comes to the negotiating table and says that we can only have peace by keeping Crimea, he shows us that he is not serious”he detailed in the interview, adding that “Crimea no longer exists”. This territory located in the south of Ukraine was annexed by Russia in 2014.
Ukraine considers its proposals “realistic”
Bryan Lanza added that he has immense respect for the Ukrainian people, whose “the heart is made of a lion”. But he maintained that the United States' priority was “peace and an end to the massacres”.
In response, the Ukrainian president's advisor, Dmytro Lytvyn, described Bryan Lanza's remarks as pressure for peace on Ukraine when it is “Putin who wants more wars”. “Ukraine has been proposing peace since 2022, and its proposals are completely realistic. It is Russia that must be made to understand that peace is necessary and that it must be reliable, so that there is simply no repeat of Russian strikes”he claimed.
To minimize the comments of Bryan Lanza, a Trump spokesperson who did not wish to disclose his identity, and interviewed by the BBCI explained that Bryan Lanza n'“was only a campaign contractor”that“he does not work for Trump or speak on his behalf”.
Russian domination
According to the BBCTrump “should conduct peace negotiations with a restricted circle of assistants”. “Anyone – regardless of their rank in Trump’s circle – who claims to have a different view or a more detailed view of his plans on Ukraine, simply does not know what they are talking about”also whispered an advisor to the national security council who preferred to remain anonymous.
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In his many speeches, Trump refused to exclude the possibility that Ukraine would have to cede land to Russia and was particularly vague when he mentioned the conflict, recalls the BBC. Some prominent allies of the new president presented “peace proposals which, in practice, would result in long-term Russian domination over areas internationally recognized as Ukrainian territories”specifies the British media.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by telephone, accompanied by billionaire Elon Musk. Vladimir Putin, for his part, called his American counterpart to congratulate him on his electoral victory.
