The agreement between Ukraine and the United States on a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia is only one side of the coin. Many Western analysts believe that with this agreement, Ukraine has only been freed from American pressure. Although Trump did not hide his enthusiasm for reaching this understanding between Ukraine and the United States, the ball is now, according to Marco Rubio, in Vladimir Putin's court.
Moscow has not officially reacted, but an influential Russian lawmaker, commenting on the ceasefire proposal, said that any agreement would be on Moscow's terms, not Washington's.
“Russia is making progress (in Ukraine), and therefore it will be different with Russia,” Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, said in a post on Telegram. “Any agreement - with all the understanding of the need for compromise - is made on our terms, not the Americans’. And this is not bragging, but the understanding that real agreements are still being written there, at the front. Which they should also understand in Washington,” Kosachev emphasizes.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made it clear that there would be little understanding for a refusal. “If they said no, unfortunately we would know who the obstacle to peace is,” he said. Vladimir Putin must understand this sentence as a threat.
Bloomberg, citing exclusive sources from Western security officials, says Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention of compromising on demands for land, peacekeepers and Ukraine's neutrality in any peace talks, complicating President Donald Trump's efforts to secure a credible solution.
Putin has deliberately made “maximalist” demands ahead of negotiations to end the war that he knows are likely to be unacceptable to Ukrainians and other Europeans, according to security officials, Bloomberg reports. The Russian leader is prepared to keep fighting if he doesn’t achieve his goals, the officials said.
The assessment of Putin's intent casts doubt on whether he is serious about negotiating a realistic and lasting peace solution with Ukraine. It also contradicts Trump's views shared at the White House on Friday, when he told reporters he believed Putin wanted peace.
Ukraine’s core demand for security guarantees is not reflected in the agreement. Kiev’s negotiating team was only able to extract from the US the concession that negotiations would begin “as soon as possible” on “Ukraine’s long-term security guarantees.” In the same sentence, however, Washington also stated that such an agreement would address both “the development of Ukraine’s minerals” and “compensation for the costs of US aid.” (A2 Televizion)
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