Trump demands that “that Ukraine holds as much land as possible”

It is now needed first negotiations for “a good deal”, the goal of which is “”that Ukraine retains as much land as possible“.

He left open whether he meant returns from areas currently still occupied by Russia. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrow had rejected a ceasefire along the current front in the afternoon in Qatar – Russia stipulated in the constitution that the entire regions of Russia have so far only belonged to the Russian territory. So also land that Ukraine still has.

With a view of Possible security guarantees For the Ukraine attacked by Russia, Trump made it clear that he saw responsibility for this at Europe: “I will not give any extensive security guarantees. That should take over Europe. ” Europe is in the immediate vicinity of Ukraine, “but we will make sure that everything goes well”.

“A deal is a deal, I can guarantee nothing”

Trump initially did not want to answer any further questions about securing a possible peace deal: “Let’s make peace first and then I also answer the question of the peace troops“. The problem of international troops is “easy”.

He called British and French troops in Ukraine a “good thing”. Lavrow, on the other hand, had explicitly rejected the stationing of international troops.

“Putin is a very clever and cunning man, but he will have to make concessions“, Trump continued:” But a deal is a deal, I can guarantee nothing, sometimes crazy things happen. ” It is only certain that his choice prevented Putin from conquering all Ukraine.

NATO accession further excluded

In the past few weeks, the new US president had several more Kremlin-friendly tones and initially took over some central Russian demands.

However, Trump again excluded NATO accession to Ukraine. “I can tell you that you can forget NATO,” Trump said at a cabinet meeting when asked by a journalist about the Russian attack war and concessions of Ukraine.

The debate about the Band in the defense alliance was “probably the reason why the whole thing started,” said Trump with a view to the Russian war of aggression.