Russia lashes out against European countries accusing them of wanting to boycott the attempts of Donald Trump of reaching peace in Ukraine, five days after the summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. “Euroimbecilli try to hinder American attempts to help resolve the Ukrainian conflict,” said former president Dmitry Medvedev, after, in a joint declaration, the leaders of France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland and the EU reiterated their “unshakable commitment” for “the territorial integrity of Ukraine” and have made “measures” restrictive ». “Declaration that the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has liquidated as a” Nazi flyer “. In the text, Zakharova underlined the group of European countries “invites the fire to a cease, but not what would be obtained by interrupting the supplies of weapons to the terrorists of Kiev”.
“On the contrary, in another Nazi flyer it is stated that success in reaching peace in Ukraine can only be obtained by exerting pressure on Russia and supporting Kiev,” added the spokesman in a comment on his Telegram channel. The high representative for EU foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, convening for tomorrow an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers, said that “all the temporarily occupied territories (by the Russians) belong to Ukraine”. Therefore, not to the offer of Moscow which is called “one -way” in Brussels. Trump had instead spoken of “exchanges of territories” to get to peace. While in the last few hours the US vice president, JD Vance, has insisted on the need for a compromise in an interview with Fox News, in which he observed that “the agreement will not make Russia in the end nor Ukrainian”.
The picture, therefore, seems far from defined. European countries, together with Kiev, say that no solution can be found without the participation of Ukraine. But so far there are no signs of a possible invitation from President Volodymyr Zelensky at the top of Ferragosto. A trilateral meeting is “possible”, said the American ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker in an interview with CNN.
“I don’t think a meeting between Putin and Zelensky would be productive before the meeting with Trump,” said Vance instead. Several observers also point out that in their first interview from the return of the Tycoon to the White House – and the first between a Russian and an American president after more than four years – Ukraine will only be one of the topics under discussion. The two leaders should also speak of urgent themes in the context of bilateral relations, starting from the strategic balance. In next February the last treaty in force between the two countries on nuclear weapons, the New Start, will expire, which limits the number of intercontinental missiles. While in recent days Moscow has felt that she no longer feels obliged to respect a moratorium on the deployment of medium and short radius carriers, after in 2019, during its first mandate, Trump had decided to leave the relative Treaty Inf.
According to the Russian deputy foreign minister Serghei Ryabkov, in this situation there is “the risk of a global nuclear conflict”. But even more worrying for Kiev and European capitals play the words with which Vance reiterated that the Trump administration no longer wants to finance the defense of Ukraine. “I believe that the Americans – observed the vice president – are tired of continuing to send the money of their taxes to this conflict”. If Europeans want to pay US weapons to send them to Kiev, “for us it is fine,” added Vance. The same position expressed last month by Trump, who had admitted that for the US it is a “business”. Meanwhile, the local authorities said that five people were killed by Russian attacks in Ukraine and two from the Raid of Kiev’s forces in Russia. With the Ukrainian army he said he had attached with drones a oil refinery in the Russian region of Saratov, about a thousand kilometers from the line of the line. forehead.