The umpteenth massacre in Ukraine, with a very heavy balance of civil victims in Sumy, reappeared the West in the sentence without appeal to Russia.
There is the European Union, there are the chancelleries, including Italy, and above all there are United Statesnever so hard towards Moscow since Donald Trump He returned to the White House.
The President of the United States said that the Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, in which at least 35 people died, was “a horrible thing”. “I think it was terrible. And I was told that they made a mistake. But I think it’s a horrible thing. I think the whole war is a horrible thing, “said the US leader aboard the Air Force One during his return trip to Washington.
Leaders’ messages follow one another quickly, while the media from all over the world spread the images of raid on palm Sunday. Ursula von der leyen He denounces a “barbaric attack”, invoking “strong measures to impose a fire”. The premier echoes them Giorgia Meloni: “On the sacred day of Palm Sunday, another horrible and vile Russian attack was consumed in Sumy, which has once again caused innocent civil victims, including children,” says the Italian premier, underlining that these “unacceptable violence contradict any real commitment of peace, promoted by President Trump and supported convinced by Italy, together with Europe and other international partners”.
Similar convictions, among others, are expressed by Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron. Which in particular accuses Moscow of continuing the war “without regard for human lives” and Trump’s “diplomatic offers”. And the USAs put aside the conciliatory messages launched so far towards the Kremlin, with a hard lunge launched by the correspondent of the White House in Ukraine: “The attack of the Russian forces on civil targets in Sumy has exceeded the limits of decency”, the words of Keith Kellogg,
The news of Sumy screech with the proposal of truce on a large scale advanced by Washington but accepted only by Kiev. Moscow has restricted the agreement – endorsed by the USA – to exclude the Black Sea (already violated, given that the missiles also start from there) from the war operations) and the energy infrastructures, but now among the willing rabies now grow, because while the Russian refineries no longer undergo the incursions of the Ukrainian drones “people” continue to die “.
“President Trump said: ‘I want the killings to end.’ But the ceasefire does not concern the killings. It concerns oil, energy. It does not concern people ». To speak, in confidence, it is a high diplomatic source that plays on the front of the willing, the coalition of 30 and more countries that is trying to find practical solutions to give security guarantees to Kiev, in the light of a possible (what elusive) peace agreement. “The message – continues the source – is practically the following: ‘You can continue to kill people as much as you want, as long as you don’t attack energy infrastructures’. And the status quo is playing in favor of Russia, because it does not want Ukrainians to attack its oil ».
In short, Palm Sunday carnage could – we think – show the limits of the strategy adopted by Trumpwho sends the emissary Steve Witkoff from Putin, in return he gets skimpy press releases of the Kremlin, and no concrete step forward. As long as the Donald will be backlier? It is not convenient for him to break the delay and ensure the willing to the willing at least that blessed ‘backstop’ USA – or the promise of not being alone – which serves to unlock the impasse on the coalition’s military plans?
At the last meeting to NATO last week – as far as we learn – London and Paris presented the partners an updated concept of the operation. You can no longer wait for the peace agreement made and finished between Ukraine and Russia to move the pawns, a real fire will be enough. “At that point France and Great Britain are willing to move, put the boots on the ground to guarantee the truce and thus force peace”, argues an allied diplomatic source. And who is there. Meanwhile, tomorrow, the 27 EU ministers will first return to the Luxembourg Foreign Affairs Council will return to address the Ukrainian question, with I would go sibiha in connection.