Is the end of the war between Ukraine, Russia closer than ever? THE Donald Trump Yesterday Monday (20.05.2025) had a telephone contact with Vladimir Putin for over 2 hours to immediately begin with peace negotiations.
Although Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin has agreed to start “immediately” directly negotiations with Ukraine on the ceasefire but also a wider peace agreement to end the war, the “road” is still a long way as the President is still a long way. only conditional.
On the side of Donald Trump seems to stop- even temporarily- his “harsh” attitude towards Russiaretreating from his demand for immediate declaration of ceasefire and supporting the Russian president’s appeal for negotiations, says a New York Times analysis.
“The terms will negotiate directly among the warring countries because they know details of a negotiation that no one else would know,” the US president said in yesterday’s statements.
Donald Trump appeared excited to hand over its intermediary role In a higher and new power … Pope Leo.
In his statement he stated that the Vatican He expressed interest in hosting the upcoming negotiations and urged: “To start the process!”
While Donald presented the launch of the peace talks as a concession of Putin, he largely approved the Russian president’s approach, as his country has responded to calls for ending battles by proposing prolonged negotiations.
Now, the Donald Trump seems to be ready to take a step back and encourage Russia and Ukraine to conclude an agreement directly with each other.
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, expressed his concern after Trump – Putin telephone communication This is why, by saying, ‘in the negotiation process it must participate in both Americans and Europeans Representatives at the right level. “
And all this comes after the meeting of Russia and Ukraine officials in Constantinople for their first direct peace talks for more than three years.
Officials agreed to continue chatting and exchange from 1,000 prisoners each.
The lack of meaningful progress in talks shows that Donald Trump has so far been hitting complex political motives that guide Russia and Ukraine.
After the phone call, the US president said that when it ended “the devastating blood bath”, Russia would like to join in ‘Large -scale trade with the USrecasting the end of the conflict as a business proposal and not as a diplomatic victory.
Donald Trump’s comments have shown that Vladimir Putin succeeded in promoting his US counterpart, the possibility of lucrative business agreements in Russia.
The US president “spoken quite emotionally” about the prospects of the US-Russian relationship and described Russia as a key future US commercial partner, Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Usakov told reporters.
Russia’s “camp”
After chatting with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin Speaking in front of the cameras, he said he had a “very meaningful and quite sincere” conversation with his counterpart.
Vladimir Putin made it clear that he is not receding from his demands and that Russia is not on the brink of a ceasefire.
Elsewhere he said that Russia was’ ready to work with the Ukrainian side for a memorandum About a possible future peace agreement. “
He reiterated his mantra that a peace agreement must “remove the deeper causes of this crisis”, referring to Russia’s pursuit of broad influence in Ukraine.
Although Donald Trump is optimistic, members of the government have confirmed their frustration over the deadlock between Russia and Ukraine
Carolin Levit, a White House spokesman, said Trump was “tired and frustrated, with both sides of the conflict”, but refused to say if the president – who once argued that he could end the war in one day – had a deadline for two.
The phone call between the two leaders came after weeks that Donald Trump accused, shakes and threatened Vladimir Putin for prolonging the war.
It also came one day after Russia targeted Ukraine with one of the largest drones bombings, from which a woman was killed and several other people were injured.
Donald Trump, however, did not comment on the latest attacks.
In telephone communication, he said that He asked Vladimir Putin to meet with him.
In fact, Direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine started last Friday in Istanbulin conversations initially suggested by Putin.
At this meeting, Russia insisted on its harsh demands, Including Ukraine’s obligation to retire from a large part of the Ukrainian land that its forces continue to control.
On Monday, the Kremlin tried to reduce expectations. Elsewhere he said that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed not only the war but also the improvement of bilateral relationships – a key goal for the Russian as he seeks relief from the Economic sanctions imposed by the Biden government in Russia.
“No decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine”
Donald Trump also spoke separately with Volodimir Zelenski, who made it clear that his country would never withdraw its forces from its territory and will not retreat to any Russian ultimatum.
Zelenski said he also asked Trump not to make any decision on Ukraine without Ukraine.
“This is a decisive moment,” he wrote in a statement after a phone call with Donald Trump.
“People can now see if its leaders are really capable of securing a ceasefire and achieving real, constant peace.”
Concerning trade agreements after the end of the war, Donald Trump argued that Ukraine can benefit, as well as Russia.
Zelenski, however, said it remains unclear whether the US would unite with European nations in reinforcing sanctions against Russia.
“We need to know who we can rely on and to whom not. A Europe support package comes and will be strong, “he said in a brief press conference. “As for the package from the United States – this is a different story.”