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Full -screens Tuesday, Trump and Putin will talk to each other. Photo: AP
This is the phone call the whole world is waiting for.
And Donald Trump is said to plan a move that will get Russia to snap.
At the same time, Putin is expected to use “KBG tactics” to get his will through.
The conversation between the White House and the Kremlin will take place on Tuesday.
This is the first time Trump and Putin has heard since Ukraine agreed to a 30 -day temporary ceasefire in the war – if Russia does so as well.
The American president has been clear that he wants to see a peace settlement as quickly as possible.
Trump’s move to secure the agreement
– We want to find out if we can put an end to the war. Maybe we can, maybe not. But I think we have a very good opportunity, Donald Trump told reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday night local time.
According to Political news site Semafor You discuss a possible way in the White House to get Putin to snap on the proposal for a ceasefire.
Semafor states, with reference to two sources with transparency in the case, that they are considering recognizing Crimea as a Russian territory.
In addition, one would urge the UN to do the same.
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Full Screen Soldiers in Crimea 2015. Photo: Jerker Ivarsson
Sensitive question
The Ukrainian peninsula was annexed by Russia as early as 2014, eight years before the full -scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
Krim’s future is just one of several different proposals discussed in the White House and no decision on the issue has been formally made by Donald Trump, Semafor states.
During Sunday evening, the US president said that the question of what will happen to occupied territory will be included in the conversation with Putin.
The question of Crimea can be a hefty shock test in negotiations.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has previously excluded that one can release Russian -cooked areas in possible peace negotiations.
Even among European leaders, a proposal to allow Russia would create anger anger, writes Semafor.
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Full -screen Volodymyr Zelenskyj has previously excluded to give up Crimea. Photo: Omar Havana / AP
A question to “look at”
At the same time, not many people believe that Ukraine could conquer Crimea militarily.
Even before and during his first term of office, Trump opened to recognize Crimea as Russian.
He said several times that it is a question you “should look at”.
“What I have heard, people in Crimea would rather belong to Russia than it used to be,” he said in 2018 in an interview with ABC News.
Putin has said he is positive to a ceasefire, but that there are things must be investigated before deciding to agree on one.
Experts agree that Putin is trying to go out on negotiations for as long as possible to get the most advantageous conditions as possible – especially when Russia is currently competing in the war, writes The Moscow Times.
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Full screenputin is expected to use KGB tactics to get Trump wherever he wants. Photo: Gavriil Grigorov / AP
Uses KGB tactics
Therefore, Putin wants to continue with the offensive into the Ukrainian area as long as possible.
– Putin’s goal is to take political control over Ukraine. He cannot do that if his control stabilizes where he is on the ground now, John Herbst, former US ambassador to Ukraine, told The Moscow Times.
– To prevent Putin from taking control of Ukraine is critical to American interests.
Herbst believes that Putin is likely to believe that he can secure an advantageous agreement for Russia if he only handles the proposal on the month -long ceasefire correctly.
– Putin has made strategic misses, but he is good at reading people and manipulating them, he tells The Moscow Times.
The former ambassador believes that the Russian president is testing the tactics he refined over the years at KGB against Trump which he knows is interchangeable and unpredictable.
“Continuing as long as Putin is left”
The tactics mean, among other things, paying tribute to the idea of a ceasefire and paying tribute to the author as a genius while pointing out that there are “problems” with the proposal, whatever it will look like.
Maria Snegovaya, an expert on Russia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), tells the Russian independent site that a ceasefire will drag out over time.
– Even if you freeze the positions, the war will not end. Many people do not think it will end as long as Putin remains in power, she says.