The Bloomberg agency reported on Saturday that Donald Trump during a conversation with European leaders and President Volodymyr Zelnski said that Vladimir Putin is still demanding the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Trump was also to tell European leaders that the matter of security guarantee for Ukraine is current, “unless it required NATO's involvement”. “President Trump suggested that Putin would be ready for it,” we read in the agency's material.
Trump was to support Putin's idea. Kyiv wants to know more details
The next information is provided by “The New York Times”. President Trump was to state during conversations with politicians from Europe that peace could be achieved quickly if Ukraine withdraws from the rest of the Donetsk region. In return, Putin was to offer a truce, and Trump did not rule out security guarantee with the participation of US soldiers.
According to the journal, citing European officials, Trump told European leaders that he supported the plan of Vladimir Putin assuming the devotion of some Donbass parts controlled by Ukraine in exchange for suspension of weapons and freezing the front line.
This plan is to be the subject of a conversation between the presidents of the US and Ukraine, but according to “NYT” Kiev wants to know more details and “does not understand” why Trump gave up the postulate of immediate suspension of weapons.
“Zelnski and European leaders strongly oppose such withdrawal of uninhabited areas, which also contain important defensive lines and are rich in minerals. Ukrainian officials have found that the final agreement cannot assume Kiev's consent for the permanent devotion of any Ukrainian sovereign territory, which would violate the Ukrainian constitution.”
Warranty for Ukraine. Trump has a clear opinion
However, Trump was also to say that Putin agreed that Ukraine should have strong security guarantees, although not within NATO. This coincides with earlier reports of the AFP agency. The American president told Europeans that American soldiers could be part of these guarantees. Russia was also to propose a commitment – in writing – that it would not attack again.
“NYT” reports are also confirmed by the “Financial Times”, which also writes about the proposal to donate the Donetsk region for a truce and promise to refrain from further attacks. It seems that this is the same proposal that Putin was supposed to submit in an interview with Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, just over a week ago. According to the former Kremlin official cited by the newspaper, Putin did not abandon his demands to deal with the “basic reasons” of war, which in practice means “ending the statehood of Ukraine in its current form.”
