Washington – President Donald Trump’s Access to completion Russian war against Ukraine He left European Allies and Ukrainian officers concerned that the new US administration was largely performed as Washington and Moskw Direct negotiations.
Trump is with three-year war grinding, and Trump sends the State Secretary Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Steve Witkoff Special Envoy in Saudi Arabia for talks with Russian colleagues, according to the American officer who is not authorized to discuss the forthcoming diplomatic efforts and spoke of the state of anonymity.
It is unclear to what extent, in Riyadh, represent the largest deployed in the discussions in Riyadh in the coming days. The official said the United States saw negotiations as an early stage and liquid, which is ultimately end in the table it can change.
In exchange with journalists on Sunday, Trump said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “will be involved” in negotiations. Trump did not offer further explanation.
Comes reach After comments of the most popular Aduts of Advisors Last weeks, including vice presidents JD Vance, He picked up new concerns in Kiev and other European capitals, which the Republic Administration intends in rapid conflict resolution with minimal entry from Europe.
“The decade of an old relationship between Europe and America end up” Zelenskyy told to the address Saturday at the Munich Security Conference. “From now on, things will be different, and Europe needs to adapt to it.”
White house officials on Sunday pushed back against the clue that Europe was omitted from the conversation. Trump spoke on the last few days with the French President Emmanuel Macron and is expected to consult British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer this week.
During the visit to Munich and Paris, Vance held talks from the macrone, British Secretary of the foreign overance David Lammy, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeeieiero, NATO Secretary General, as well as Zelensky.
“Now I can’t love some of these sequencing that happen in these negotiations, but I have to go back to this … the notion of not consulting,” Fox News Sunday said.
“They are absolutely and at the end of the day, however, this will be under President Trump leadership that we get this war by the end,” Waltz said.
Rubio, who was in Israel on Sunday before heading for Saudi Arabia, he said carefully approaching us, because he is relieved to facilitate Moscow after tightening the Bisenden administration after contacts after invasion 2022. Years.
Trump spoke on the phone last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the two leaders agreed to start talks at a high level about the end of the war. They initially presented as two-way, but Trump later confirmed that Ukraine would have a seat – although he did not say what stage.
It was not immediately clear whether any Ukrainians would participate in the upcoming conversations on Riyadh. The Ukrainian delegation was in Saudi Arabia to enter the road possible to visit Zelenskyy, according to Ukraine’s Minister of Economics.
Trump told Sunday that he believed that Putin was eager for the agreement, at the same time noticing that Russia has historically impressed the battlefield.
“I think he wants to stop fighting,” Trump said. “They have a great powerful machine, understand that. They won Hitler and they blown Napoleon. They fought for a long time.”
Heather Conley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Europe, during the Administration of Trub’s current access, appears to be the American accumulating approach to Moscow “to create a new international approach based on a modern concert from great powers.”
“Like 19. and early 20. century, he was just a great force to decide on the destiny of nations and to take over – or by buying or forcefully – what strengthens the great economic and security interests,” Conley said. “Each of these powers positives are claimed or coercion of the country in their regional spheres of influence.”
There is a discussion within the administration of its development in Moscow, with some more approximate and others cautious that Putin wants to defeat the Russian status and have a greater influence on the continent, according to the American official who spoke of the state of anonymity.
Trump was saying last week to love to see Russia to join what a group of seven big economies is now. Russia is suspended from G8 after the annexation of Moscow 2014. in Ukraine Crimean region.
“I’d like to give them back. That was a mistake to get them out. Look, it’s not a question of lavishing Russia,” Trump told the journalists. “I think Putin would like to come back.”
Expected Saudi conversations come and In the middle of tension Through the Trump pressure to agree to give the US in Ukraine to Ukrainian deposits of rare minerals of terrestrial minerals in exchange for about $ 66 billion aid that Washivton gave Kiev, as well as the future help of the defense.
Zelensky, who met Vaca and other high American officials in Munich on Friday, said he directed the Ukrainian minister to not unsubscribe, at least for now. He said in an interview that the agreement that presented the United States was too focused on American interests and did not include security guarantees for Ukraine.
The White House called Zelenskyy’s decision “Short seeing” and claimed that a rare earth agreement would tape Ukraine closer to the United States – something that Moscow did not want to see.
European officials remained some of some Vance’s remarks during their five-day visit to Paris and Munich last week in which he taught them on free speech and illegal migration on the continent. He warned that they risk lost public support if they did not change the course quickly.
Vance also met while in Munich with Alice Weidel, Ko-leader and candidate for the Chancellor of the ultimate and anti-immigrant alternative to entertainment in Germany in the elections this month.
Through Europe, officials now want to recalibrate their access to the Adut Administration, the Ukraine Strategy.
Macron will be convened on Monday, the top European countries in Paris on an emergency “working meeting” for the next steps for Ukraine, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Sunday.
“The wind of unity blows over Europe, as we may not have felt from the Kovini period,” Barrot told France-Info.
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Kinnard reported from Chapin, South Carolina. Associated Press Writer Darlene Superville in West Palm Beach, Florida, contributed to this report.
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