The American president-elect recently spoke with Vladimir Putin, asking him to avoid an escalation in Ukraine.
Drone attacks on an unprecedented scale targeted Ukraine and the Moscow region during the night from Saturday to Sunday, both camps denounced, despite the fact that Donald Trump would have asked Vladimir Putin not to provoke escalation according to the Washington Post.
The latter would have discussed the objective of peace on the European continent and the American president-elect would have said he hoped to be able to discuss “resolution of the war in Ukraine soon”according to anonymous sources from the American daily.
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.
“Working together for a return of peace to Europe”
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“, declared 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 a deal 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 Donald Trump’s victory, 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 $6 billion dedicated to Ukraine before Mr. Trump comes to power, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday, warning of the risks linked to the shutdown of American support for kyiv.
