Since his victory in the American presidential election, Donald Trump has increased his calls regarding the war in Ukraine. While the businessman will return to the White House on January 20, he spoke Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and reportedly asked him not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine, the Russian newspaper reported on Sunday. American daily newspaper Washington Post.
American presidential election: the difficult equation of the war in Ukraine
This would be the first telephone conversation between the two men since Donald Trump won the US presidential election last Tuesday. They discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Donald Trump said he hoped to have follow-up conversations to discuss “resolution of the war in Ukraine soon”according to anonymous sources from the American daily. Questioned by AFP, Donald Trump's entourage did not confirm this information.
Ending the war “in one day”
Foreign policy issues will be on the menu of the meeting between Joe Biden and Donald Trump scheduled in the Oval Office on Wednesday to begin the transfer of power. Donald Trump has regularly claimed 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. This question of land would also have been raised, according to the same sources.
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The Kremlin estimated on Sunday that the Republican had sent during the campaign “positive signals” regarding the conflict, since he mentioned a possible ” peace “ and did not show “desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia”
The United States will spend the remaining six billion dollars dedicated to Ukraine before Donald Trump comes to power, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the same day, warning of the risks linked to the end of American support for kyiv.
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Yesterday, the German Chancellery also indicated that Olaf Scholz had spoken to Donald Trump on Sunday and that they both said “ ready to work together for the return of peace to Europe ».
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Donald Trump also spoke with Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. An exchange in which billionaire Elon Musk participated. The Ukrainian president described this telephone exchange as « excellent » and had “ agreed to maintain a close dialogue » with Mr. Trump. But according to a highly placed Ukrainian source, the two leaders did not “not really discussed anything substantial, it was a greeting conversation.”
