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To stop the “carnage” in Ukraine, Donald Trump said he wanted to speak to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
US President-elect Donald Trump wants to talk to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop the “carnage” of the war in Ukraine, he said at a press conference on Monday.
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“We're going to talk to President Putin and we're going to talk” to “Zelensky and (the) representatives of Ukraine. We have to stop this, it's carnage,” Donald Trump said from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. “A large part of this territory, when you look at what has happened… There are towns where there is not a building standing, it is a demolition site […]. So people cannot return to these cities, there is nothing left,” declared the future American president.
He was questioned about the territories that could be negotiated as part of possible peace discussions between Moscow and kyiv.
For the Kremlin, the “pre-negotiation” conditions are not met
The Kremlin believes that the “pre-negotiations” conditions are not met, with Moscow de facto demanding a surrender of Ukraine before negotiating peace. Russia demands that Ukrainian forces lay down their arms, that kyiv cedes the five regions that Moscow claims to annex and that Ukraine renounces joining NATO.
Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to end the conflict, without explaining how he intends to proceed. He also said that Ukraine should “probably” expect less aid from Washington.
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European allies and kyiv fear that Donald Trump could force kyiv into excessive concessions, which would de facto grant a geopolitical and military victory to Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin on Friday welcomed the position of Donald Trump who said he was “strongly opposed” to Ukraine's use of American missiles against Russian territory.
The administration of President Joe Biden authorized the use of such ATACMS missiles in November, after having long opposed it, following the deployment, according to the West and kyiv, of thousands of North Korean soldiers in support of the Russian soldiers.
