“My intuition tells me that we have a chance, good. It must be resolved,” said Trump on Friday.
An anonymous high -ranking European official, who in an interview with Politico discussed confidential diplomatic issues, attributed Putin's readiness to meet Trump's joint pressure from Washington and his allies. He said Europe hopes that Trump will continue hard tactics.
“Finally, there was some movement from Putin, thanks to Trump, who allowed the supply of weapons and took steps to sanctions,” said a high -ranking White House official in an interview with Politico. “It shows that Putin reacts to serious pressure. Now we only need to put more pressure to get better results.”
The meeting will take place in an unusual place – in Alaska, i.e. on the territory of the United States. Governor Alaska Mike Dunleavy said Alaska was Strategically the most important place in the world. But why will Trump take Putin there?
“Because Russia and Alaska divide only three kilometers, no other place plays a more important role in our national defense, our energy security and our leadership in the Arctic” – emphasized Dunleavy.
“It is appropriate that there have been discussions about global importance here. Alaska has been a bridge between nations for centuries and is still a gate for diplomacy, trade and security in one of the most critical regions in the world,” said the governor.
Kremlin's advisor Yuri Ruszakow described the choice of meeting place as obvious. “Russia and the USA are close neighbors who bordered each other,” he emphasized.
“It is quite logical, therefore, that our delegation will simply fly over the Bering Strait, and such an important and impatiently awaited peak between the leaders of both countries will take place in Alaska,” he emphasized.
Uszakow then explained that from the point of view of the future “it is natural that the next meeting of the presidents will take place in the Russian land.” The invitation on this matter has already been sent to the US President.
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In March 2023, the International Criminal Court (MTK) in Hague issued Putin's arrest order in connection with suspected war crimes in connection with the abduction of Ukrainian children to Russia. The arrest warrant is formally valid in all 123 countries that are parties to the Roman Statute.
However, the United States did not sign a treaty. Therefore, the United States is not obliged under international law to follow the arrest warrant.
The White House clerk said in an interview with Politico that in recent days The White House conducted many telephone conversations with Ukraine and her European allies to discuss the plan.
The White House official and the European intermediary in conversations with the administration of the US President informed in an interview with Politico that Trump's administration assesses the reactions of European allies to a possible proposal to suspend weapons with Russia after a special envoy Steve Witkoff gave the demands of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin regarding the agreement.
The White House clerk informed Politico that Witkoff returned this week from the meeting with Putin and informed President Donald Trump that the Russian president presented the conditions under which Russia would agree to stop hosting in Ukraine.
In the past, Putin made maximalistic demands, such as control of territories he did not get militarily. Ukraine rejected them.
“This does not mean that an agreement has already been reached or a truce has been concluded,” said the White House clerk, who, provided that anonymity has been maintained, shared the opinion of the administration. “The president discusses this issue with all interested parties.”
“Putin wants to go back to a great game”
Trump said he believes that Putin wants peace and is ready to listen to his proposals, despite the fact that last month he regretted the tendency of the Russian president to make “nonsense”.
On Friday, however, Trump sounded more optimistic.
His gesture is the latest of the White House's efforts to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which was often a repeated election promise. American envoys met with Russian officials several times, but no progress has been achieved.
This caused sharper rhetoric of clearly frustrated Trump, which threatened with new sanctions against Russia, as well as higher duties for countries such as India that help finance Putin's war machine, buying Russian oil. Trump also allowed European allies to buy American weapons for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Trump appointed Putin Friday, on August 8, as a date for consent to the immediate suspension of weapons in Ukraine, threatening sanctions. The US President refused to answer the question of whether he intends to keep his threat or whether to Da Putin a little more time, since the meeting was agreed.
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“We will provide more information a little later,” Trump said on Friday afternoon.
European allies with satisfaction adopted the gradual actions of Trump to tighten the policy towards Russia, but with distrust observe the latest diplomatic activities, hoping that Trump will take advantage of the opportunity to obtain concessions from Moscow.
Putin has long been applying for a meeting with Trump from the moment the Republican's return to power returned and it would be a big victory for him if he managed to organize them without significant concessions or without the participation of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelnski. Trump said he would meet Putin regardless of whether he would agree to meet Zelanski. Putin rejected many invitations of the White House to meet Zelanski, which the United States consider to be crucial for the end of the war.
“It is the Kremlin really interested, and Putin wants to go back to a great game, which gives Trump an advantage,” he said in an interview with Politico William Taylor, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, currently working at the American Think Tank Atlantic Council.
– The president (Trump) does not perceive meeting Putin as concessions, but he cares about how the final agreement will be received – said in an interview with Politico Victoria Coates, a deputy advisor to national security advisors in the first Trump administration.
“Trump wants a good agreement,” she said. “He doesn't want to be criticized for putting all cards to Putin.”
On Saturday morning, Zelanski spoke in the entry on the platform X. Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can bring peace.
“Decisions against us, decisions without Ukraine, are also decisions against peace,” wrote Zelanski. You need “a room that people respect”. The peak in Alaska is “very far from this war, which is crazy in our land, against our people” and it cannot end without Ukraine. Russia began the war and must end it.
The answer to the Ukrainian territorial question is in the constitution. Zelanski clearly put the matter: “Ukrainians will not give the occupier of their land.”
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