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Media: Trump decided to convince Ukraine to cede part of the territory
Ukraine will lose Donbass and Crimea, and will also not be able to join NATO, and Kiev understands this, Politico reported , citing an unnamed foreign policy expert of the American Republican Party. The expert “is familiar with the Ukrainian president and his entourage,” the publication clarified.
Kyiv now believes that Donald Trump, who won the US presidential election, “may well turn out to be” a better option than Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris, an expert said.
“At best, Harris would maintain Joe Biden’s approach - and this would mean the slow death of Ukraine,” the publication’s interlocutor said.
Trump wants the war to end, but he has no intention of depriving Ukraine of arms supplies, a GOP official said. As a deal-maker, Trump knows that Ukraine's collapse would mean "Putin will start calling the shots at the negotiating table," a source told Politico.
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During a recent conversation with Vladimir Zelensky, Trump “gave the Ukrainian leader confidence” that he would not abandon the US ally to his fate, a source told reporters. He said Trump's interest in stopping the war is to demonstrate "the art of the dealmaker" and the president-elect doesn't want to be seen as "making a terrible deal."
So far, Trump does not have a detailed plan, and his advisers have differing opinions, Politico writes. Trump also has not yet appointed a team to oversee the peace initiative, the newspaper noted.
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“But Ukraine is already being told that it will have to make significant territorial concessions and that the reward for this will be keeping 80% of the country free and independent,” another GOP official familiar with conversations taking place around Trump told Politico.
The deal that Ukraine will have to make will undermine trust in the West, writes Politico. “But if you spend decades reducing the armed forces and weapons production” and don’t respect self-established “red lines,” then “that’s exactly what should happen.”
A few days ago it became known that the Ukrainian leadership wants to persuade Trump to continue helping in the war with Russia. The Financial Times reported that Ukraine has already begun to adjust its “victory plan” to the new administration of the elected US president.
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