Donald Trump, the former and future US president, spoke by telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putinfrom his private residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Thursday November 7, two days after his victory, reveals the Washington Post, Sunday November 10. Of course, it was the war in Ukraine that took up most of the conversation. Donald Trump, according to his entourage, warned the Russian president against the temptation of a military escalation, an intensification of his offensive to quickly take more Ukrainian territory and truly arrive in a position of strength at a hypothetical peace negotiation table . Donald Trump reminded Vladimir Putin, for all intents and purposes, that the American army remains very present in Europe, very close to the Ukrainian border.
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**At the heart of the discussion: the conditions for a possible rapid resolution of the conflict in Ukraine. Because we still don't know what Donald Trump imagines, behind his famous promise of “end the war in 24 hours“. Very concretely, the question is that of the price of this peace for Ukraine, which is not really in a favorable position to negotiate in recent months. The price should therefore be the renunciation of Ukrainian territories, conquered and occupied by the Russians for two and a half years, but in fact since 2014.
Concerns for Ukraine's territorial integrity
kyiv has always set the guarantee of its territorial integrity as the first condition for peace negotiations with Russia. But with the return of Donald Trump to the White House, she could well lose the support of Washington on this point. The president-elect's entourage is sending worrying signals for kyiv. On Saturday, his son, Donald Junior, posted a photo of a livid Volodymyr Zelensky on Instagram, with this caption: “POV: when you are 38 days away from losing your pocket money“He implies that as soon as Trump Sr. is inaugurated, Ukraine will lose the billions in American military aid without which it can no longer face the Russian invasion.
Another signal, on the BBC an advisor to Donald Trump, Bryan Lanza warns that the priority of the new American administration will not be the restitution by Moscow of the occupied Ukrainian territories, but “peace and an end to the massacres“He half-heartedly calls on Volodymyr Zelensky to give up Crimea in particular, at the risk of giving a clear victory to Vladimir Putin in his war strategy in Eastern Europe.
