The killer joke. Soon literally on the Ukrainian front if the United States, the main providers of aid to kyiv, were to cut off the floodgates. On Sunday evening, Donald Jr. Trump, businessman and eldest son of the President-elect, posted on Instagram an unattractive photo of President Volodymyr Zelensky. With this threat as a message: You are 38 days away from losing your pocket money.
Implied, as soon as his father is invested in the White House, on January 20, Ukraine will be able to give up on financial support from his country.
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Donald Trump has never hidden it: paying for this war makes his hair stand on end. But since his victory in the presidential election last Wednesday, he has preferred to pose as a peacemaker and has held talks with world leaders. He was already at 70 on Thursday, according to him. Among them, the Ukrainian president, of whom a high-ranking relative assures that he did not come out nothing substantial” of this conversation.
As for knowing what Trump intends to say to the Russian Vladimir Putin, for whom he has never hidden his admiration… The mystery turned into confusion on Monday: the Kremlin denied an article in the Washington Post, which recounted a discussion between the two leaders.
Silence in the ranks of Trump. For the moment, only his campaign promises prevail: he will only need twenty-four hours
to end the conflict. The matter will be settled even before becoming president
(in January). Trump said it again and again, without ever revealing how he intended to do it. There is little doubt that in exchange for peace, he will demand that Ukraine renounce joining Ukraine.
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The loose tongue of Bryan Lanza, one of his advisors, suggests many other renunciations. On the BBC, On Saturday, he suggested that the President-elect would focus his efforts on ending the war and not on reconquering the occupied territories. kyiv would then have to give up a fifth of its territory (18.2%). Areas that the Russians began to annex in 2014, in Donbass and Crimea: Zelensky says there will be peace only once Crimea is returned. We have news [pour lui] : Crimea has disappeared
asserted the cynic Bryan Lanza. He was only one contract worker during the presidential campaign […]. He does not speak on behalf of the President
an anonymous Trump spokesperson was quick to react.
The future vice-president JD Vance, however, said nothing else at the end of October, when talking about the establishment of a militarized zone
along a front line. A “frozen” front at the opening of possible peace talks. According to three other members of Trump's team, cited by the newspaper Telegraph, on November 7, Trump could call on British and European troops to enforce this buffer zone
. There would be no question, however, of committing American soldiers there.
“Accountability,” says Josep Borrell
At the forefront of the war, the Europeans are walking on eggshells. According to the Kiel institute, they have already committed nearly 120 billion euros to support kyiv, but know the crucial American support. Following an interview with Trump on Sunday, German Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz, weakened by the fall of his coalition, said he ready to work [avec lui] for the return of peace to Europe
. Caller not prejudge » of Trump's action,
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, wants to be reassuring: Ukraine and the international community would have too much to lose from Russia's imposition of the law of might.
From the basement of a school in Yahidine where 300 Ukrainians had been detained by the Russians in abominable conditions, in 2022, the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell launched, on Monday, a warning to those who say this war must end […] as quickly as possible, no matter how
. He demands that there be accountability.”
Welcome support for Volodymyr Zelensky. Crushed by three years of war, its troops are losing ground. Russian airstrikes left six dead and 21 injured, including five children, yesterday in the regions of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia (south). A dam was also damaged in Kourakhové (east), threatening to flood the neighborhood. Above all, nearly 50,000 soldiers would be massed less than 50 km from areas held since August by Ukrainian forces, in the Russian region of Kursk. Putin will not skimp on the means to recover this area, within two months, before Trump's inauguration and his hypothetical peace.
