The newly elected president promises to end the war • Zelenskyi may be forced to make significant concessions
Donald Trump has promised to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office as president.
But if Ukraine thinks there can only be peace if it gets the Crimean peninsula back, it should think again, according to Trump’s former adviser Bryan Lanza.
When Donald Trump takes office as president in January, his focus will be to bring about peace between Ukraine and Russia. He has said he will end the war within 24 hours. But for that to be possible, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs to have a “realistic view of the future”, according to one of Trump’s former advisers, Bryan Lanza.
– If President Zelenskyy says that they will just stop fighting, and that there will be only peace, if they get the Crimean peninsula back, well then we have news for the president: Crimea is lost, Lanza told British BBC.
At the same time, Russia says it is ready to listen to proposals from the future US president on ways to end the war in Ukraine.
That would mean a possible peace for Ukraine
For Donald Trump to bring about peace within 24 hours would mean, for example, that Kiev would be forced to make significant concessions, according to earlier speculation. One example is forcing Ukraine to promise not to join NATO for the next 20 years.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in violation of international law in 2014. The country currently occupies around 20 percent of Ukrainian territory in the south and east, according to The Kyiv Independent.