War in Ukraine: “Trump can help us stop Putin”… Why Zelensky is banking on the American president to end the war

“I would really like this unpredictability of President Trump to apply to Russia,” said Volodymyr Zelensky. The arrival of the real estate mogul at the White House on January 20 gives hope to Ukraine.

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After three years of Russian invasion, the Ukrainian president hopes that Donald Trump can “help us stop (Vladimir) Putin.” “Trump can be decisive […] in this war,” he says, believing that the American president-elect “really wants to end the war.” Why? “He is very strong and unpredictable,” he said in a television interview on Thursday January 2.

Ukrainian troops “are tired”

Without the United States, he believes that security guarantees for Ukraine would be “weak”. Indeed, even if he hopes for unwavering support from Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky also fears a drop in American military aid.

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He also recognized that the situation is “really very difficult” and that the Ukrainian troops “are tired”, in particular because of a “lack of reserves and rotation” of troops. Thus, although the Ukrainian president has long refused to negotiate, he recently softened his position, agreeing in particular to temporarily give up trying to retake the territories conquered by Moscow, in exchange for security guarantees from NATO and an increase arms deliveries to kyiv.