The lean result of the US and Russian Presidents’ telephone conversation was expected, writes Maxim Fedorov, Ylen Ukrainian journalist.
Maxim Fedorovocratic journalist
Kiev US president Donald Trump has discussed today by telephone Russian President Vladimir Putin with.
The discussion lasted one and a half hours. It was annoyed and constructive from both the White House and the Kremlin.
Trump seems to be gloomy with Putin much better than the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyin With a knowledge of the results of the discussion in Helsinki.
The Trump administration managed to bend Ukraine’s approved by the ceasefire for 30 days without any advance conditions. Originally, Ukraine only performed a weaponry in the air and at sea, as it is very challenging to control it on a 1,200 -kilometer front.
A ceasefire without conditions was not suitable for Russia. Putin demanded Ukraine to give up business, Western weapons and soldiers’ training. However, Russia did not promise to stop recruiting new soldiers or armed.
In Ukraine was feared Even that Trump could promise Putin for the consent of Odessa harbor in return to the ceasefire. There are no regional donations to Ukraine. In addition, Ukraine does not accept that Russia intervene in military decisions in the country or decide on the country’s military alliance.
Putin talked to a negative decision as consent
According to information so far, the result of the telephone conversation has become lean. Putin has done the same thing for Trump that has long been done to his own people: he has sold something that it is not.
To his own people, Putin has sold the abandonment of the regional leadership elections as an anti -corruption action. He has justified the restriction of the freedom of expression as a safety issue. Putin considers the ending of NGOs as a fight against falsifying history.
The attack on Ukraine has been sold in Russia as a defense battle against NATO.
For Trump, he managed to sell a negative answer to the ceasefire proposal as “conditional consent”.
Obviously, the ceasefire is not interested in Putin at the moment. However, he does not want to endanger his relationship with Trump, so he will feed the US President’s small concessions that Trump can consider as progress on his way to peace.
According to the Kremlin, it was agreed in the telephone conversation that Ukraine and Russia would both release 175 prisoners of war. However, the change in prisoners of war has been underway regardless of Trump’s efforts.
Every prisoner is valuable to Ukraine, but there are Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia thousands ofand the release of less than two hundred prisoners does not seem like a concession.
According to the Kremlin, Putin agrees to interrupt the attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days. This is not likely to be a concession if it is remembered that Russia will first and foremost strike civilian energy infrastructure and Ukraine oil refineries, which are supplied with fuel for war machines.
The poor result of the debate was expected. The result is already anticipated by the fact that Putin was still at the meeting with business executives when the call had to start. If Putin had wanted something from Trump, he would not have been late.