After yesterday’s phone calls by the American President Donald Trump to the approval Vladimir Putin And Volodymyr Zelenskypreparations to start possible Peace negotiations They seem now started. The principles that the administration Trump intends to follow were outlined by the Secretary for Defense of the United States Pete Hegseth: «We must admit that the return to Borders of Ukraine which existed before 2014 is an unrealistic goal ». Unrealistic, he added, as well as the entry of Kiev in NATO. Hegseth he also reiterated that the United States do not intend to send their own soldiers in any mission of peacekeeping in Ukrainetask that for Washington must fulfill theEurope.
The territorial concessions under discussion
The United States they will ask theUkraine to make some territorial concessionsa hypothesis to which Kiev It has already been available, intent on using the areas still under its control in the Russian Kursk region. Fly aims to recognize the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhziabut of the latter two, however, it does not even control the respective capitals. The Ukrainian troops they will probably have to leave the Russian Kursk regionwhile the Russian troops they will have to leave the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv.
Security guarantees: unresolved knot
The question of security guarantees ofUkraine it is particularly difficult to: it is not clear who should provide them, so that they are considered reliable in current circumstances.
Who are American negotiators
Trump has appointed the leaders of the American negotiating team who will have to resolve these and other issues:
- The Secretary of State Marco Rubio
- The director of the CIA John Ratcliffe
- The National Security Councilor Michael Waltz
- The special correspondent for the Middle East Steve Witkoff
The latter, on the eve of the call of Trump to Putinon 11 February he went to Fly To take the teacher Mark Vogelissued by a Russian prison in exchange for the release of the Co-founder of the BTC-E cryptocurrency exchange, Alexander Vinnik.
According to the American press, a Fly Witkoff he would have met some representatives of the Russian authorities, perhaps also Putin in person. Among the Russian officials, it is believed to have seen Kirill Dmitrievfor a long time CEO of the Russian fund for direct investments. Dmitriev played the role of informal connection between the Russian authorities and the administration Trump during his first term.
Who will represent Ukraine in negotiations
The head of theUkrainian presidential officeand probable leader of the Ukrainian part, Andriy Yermakreported that Zelensky has already ordered the formation of a negotiating group. He expects the joint work With the American part he will begin Munich security conferencewhich will be held from tomorrow to Sunday in Germany.