After a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska, the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin only intensified attacks on Ukraine, began to threaten foreign troops, hit Western facilities and launched drones in Poland. According to analysts, to more active actions against Ukraine and attempts to split the American-European alliance, he was prompted by the support of China and the sluggish reaction of the United States.
Russia is more and more defiantly declare its many years of NATO weakening, trying to separate the United States from Europe in order to isolate Ukraine and deprive it of American military assistance and intelligence.
According to the former Foreign Minister of Lithuania Gabrielus Landsbergis, Putin is betting on European weakness and American disinterest. The ex-minister believes that the goals of the illegitimate Russian president are clearly going beyond Ukraine.
In Poland, a violation of the country's airspace by Russian drones was called an act of aggression by the Russian Federation. However, Trump in his statements lost the seriousness of such an invasion, the newspaper noted. The head of the White House suggested that this could be a “mistake”, and later announced sanctions against Russia, but only after all NATO countries stop purchasing Russian oil.
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After negotiations with Putin in Alaska and meetings with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders in Washington, Trump announced the need for personal negotiations between Putin and Zelensky. Subsequently, the Kremlin began to put forward the conditions that, according to media estimates, it could be an attempt to tighten the dialogue or avoid it.
On September 3, during a press conference after a visit to China, Putin stated that he did not see the point in meeting Zelensky, but did not exclude its holding, but in Moscow. The Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga called such conditions “obviously unacceptable” and emphasized that at least seven countries are ready to take a meeting. In response, Zelensky invited Putin to Kyiv.
