The alignment of Vladimir Putin with his American counterpart keeps worrying on the Ukrainian side. “Putin wants to negotiate the fate of Europe without Europe, he wants to talk about Ukraine without Ukraine”, explodes Friday, January 24 in the evening on the social network telegram, Andrii Yermak, the main advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky. A anger that says everything about this threat that Ukrainians have seen approached every day since the nomination of Donald Trump.
Vladimir Putin started to discuss with Ukraine on Friday on Friday to lead to a “Sustainable peace”three years after having launched his neighbor. But direct negotiations, between the two men, who regularly display their mutual respect, and their contempt for Europeans, are particularly alarming, according to specialists.
“It’s very dangerous”, Confirms Friday on Franceinfo Nicolas Tenzer, teacher at Sciences Po and specialist in geostrategic questions. “During the meeting that there had been in Helsinki in 2018, during Trump’s first term, the two men had seen themselves alone, just with the interpreters but without the White House advisers”he recalls. “Poutine loves this kind of situation”, According to the teacher who insists on the past of the KGB agent of the chief of the Kremlin, trained as such in “Psychological pressure”.
“Vladimir Putin knows how to handle people perfectly and achieve his ends.”
Nicolas Tenzer, specialist in geostrategic questionsin franceinfo
Volodymir Zelensky also shared on social networks on Friday his concern about these future exchanges of the two leaders who promise to meet shortly. “The head of the external intelligence services of Ukraine told us about the military potential of Russia and the will of Putin to continue the war and to manipulate the world leadersMental Andrii Yermak. More specifically, he tries to manipulate the desire of the American president to achieve peace. “
-“Putin does not want peace, what he wants is seizing Ukraineconfirms Cécile Vaissié, professor in Russian studies at the University of Rennes. Where he is ready to make concessions, because there is an interest is to snatch a piece and wait a little bit “the time of “Optionally reconstruct his army (there have still been absolutely huge Russian human losses, we speak of 800,000 men killed or seriously injured). He wants to take a break but his goal is very clear: he wants to destroy Ukraine . “ She adds that Putin “Absolutely not afraid of Trump”. For him, he is a president “predictable”.
“Ukrainians know that Putin has indeed had ways to handle Trump and this for years, including by financial reasons.”
Cécile Vaissiéin franceinfo
Weakened militarily, Ukraine is likely to lose the vital military and economic support that Washington provides him with, Donald Trump criticizing this aid and wishing rapid peace. kyiv begins to resolve himself at the idea of a gel of the fighting which would freeze the front line by depriving it of a part of its territory occupied by Russia. A possibility that it only envisages only in exchange for absolute security guarantees, adhesion to NATO or the sending of foreign troops, mainly European to enforce the ceasefire.
