A few days before the inauguration of Donald Trump in the United States, the outgoing Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, spoke of the fate of Ukraine in an interview with New York Times. Asked about the possibility of the end of the war, Mr. Blinken estimated that “the decision rev[enait] to Ukrainians »who must “decide where their future lies and how they want to get there”.
As for whether Ukraine should agree to abandon territories occupied by Moscow, the secretary of state estimated that “the line [de front] current should no longer move »and that he was “unlikely [Vladimir] Putin abandons his ambitions » of conquest. However, the “Ukraine’s claims to these territories will always exist”he added.
Saying “hope very much that the United States will remain [sous Donald Trump] the vital support they have been so far for Ukraine”Antony Blinken stressed that the Biden administration was letting “Ukraine; which was not obvious due to Putin’s ambition to wipe it off the map”. “We prevented this. Putin has failed. Ukraine stands tall. »
As for the future of Ukraine, Mr. Blinken said it was crucial to ensure that, for any truce to last between Moscow and kyiv, the country had “the ability, in the future, to deter any further aggression”. According to him, “this can be translated in several ways”namely “through NATO, and we put Ukraine on the path to NATO membership, [ou] through security guarantees from different countries to ensure that Russia knows that if it attacks again, it will be in big trouble.”
