Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that it is difficult to predict how the future US president will behave in office.
13:27•Updated 13:44
Russia sees positive signals from the future president of the United States Donald Trump’s stance on Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with state media RIA on Sunday.
– The signals are positive. During his election campaign, Trump talked about how he envisions everything through agreements and that he could make an agreement that could lead to peace, Peskov said.
However, he pointed out that it is difficult to predict how Trump will behave in office.
However, Peskov noted that it is difficult to predict the extent to which he intends to stick to the statements he made in his campaign speeches.
of the Wall Street Journal according to information received, Trump’s advisers have fairly unanimously recommended freezing the front lines in Ukraine as part of the solution. This would allow Russia to practically retain the territory it currently occupies, which covers about 20 percent of Ukraine.
In addition, the plans quite uniformly present forcing Ukraine to give up its pursuit of NATO membership, at least temporarily.
According to the WSJ, one plan by Trump advisers would have Ukraine commit to not joining the defense alliance NATO for at least 20 years.
Trump has threatened to end the war in Ukraine before his inauguration
– In Trump’s opinion, ending NATO membership negotiations with Ukraine would be the best bonus for Putin. That’s why the membership negotiations will very likely be stopped during Trump’s term, said a political researcher from Kyiv Volodymyr Fesenko Up this week.
Trump has declared that he will end the war in Ukraine even before his inauguration at the end of next January. This is it interpreted as suchthat Trump would force Ukraine into peace from a poor negotiating position, possibly by threatening to end US aid to Ukraine.
The official position of the Ukrainian leadership is that the most important thing is to maintain bipartisan support in the United States. Everything else is secondary, and preparations have been made for it, says Fesenko.