The US President Donald Trump He will speak today Tuesday (18.03.2025) with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, In an attempt to persuade his counterpart to accept the ceasefire in the Russian war with Ukraine and move towards a more permanent end to the three -year conflict.
Donald Trump said “many information” on the peace deal in Ukraine They have been agreed with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, before their long -awaited phone call. As he wrote in Truth Social have existed Online agreements, but there are still a lot of “staying” to process.
“Each week brings 2,500 deaths of soldiers, on both sides, and must end NOW. I look forward to the phone call with President Putin ‘, wrote.
Earlier he told reporters that “we will see if we can achieve a peace deal, a ceasefire and peace, and I think we will be able to do so.”
Trump talk with Putin will focus on What will Ukraine lose they write New York Times in their analysis. “In a wake of the Yalta Conference in 1945, Americans and Russian leaders will speak on Tuesday For who gets what In the process of ending the war in Ukraine. “
“If one hears Donald Trump’s statements about his forthcoming conversation with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine he will believe that the two leaders are organizing their own “Yalta Conference”, The analysis continues.
Speaking to reporters at Air Force One as he returned from Florida on Sunday night, Trump made it clear that his scheduled phone conversation with Putin would focus on Tuesday soil and assets data that Russia would keep in any ceasefire with Ukraine.
In essence, he will negotiate for the How big reward will Russia receive For its 11 years of open aggression against Ukraine, which began with the occupation of Crimea in 2014 and expanded to the totalitarian war that Putin began three years ago.
White House consultants have made it clear that Russia will definitely keep Crimea – In one of those strange reversals of history, the site of Yalta’s weekly conference in February 1945 – and have been implied that it will hold almost all the ground it already owns.
Although government officials point out that they have kept their Ukrainian counterparts and European leaders fully informed about their interactions with Russia, only Trump and Putin will be on this phone call, apparently with advisers to hear. And it is not clear whether Ukraine or the major European forces will agree with what the two men may decide.
What will they ‘distribute’ Trump – Putin
Trump and his associates have been cautious about the details of the agreement discussed with the Russian leader. THE Steve WhitkovA New York real estate agent and old friend of Trump, who is now a special envoy to the Middle East, spent hours with Putin in Moscow preparing the phone call.
“We are doing well enough, I think, with Russia,” Trump said, adding: “I think we have a very good chance” will be a ceasefire. But then he turned to the question of what Ukraine might need to give.
“I think we’re going to talk about territories, it’s a lot of territories”he said. “It’s very different from what it was before the war, as you know. We will talk about territories. We will talk about power plants ”, apparently referring to the Zaporizia nuclear plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. “This is a big issue. But I think we have already discussed most of them to a large extent on both sides. “
Trump noticed not to say much about which parts of Ukrainian territory he was discussing or whether he would try to limit Putin’s ambitions. The Trump government has already made it clear that it expects Russia to control the land its soldiers already hold, about 20% of Ukraine.
But his associates Volodimir Zelenski They said last month that they are worried that Trump can accept Putin’s other claims for Ukraine parts, perhaps even for the Odessa’s crucial port.
Trump’s National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, He told the NBC’s Meet the Press show over the weekend that he is expecting talks with Russia being realistic and avoided any debate as to whether Russia is rewarded for its aggression.
In his television appearances in recent weeks, Walj has argued that the most important result of talks should be the end of hostilities after three years of bloody war.
Walts and the rest of Trump’s advisers are extremely laconic when it comes to the terms associated with the ceasefire, which suggests that they consider them secondary in relation to the wider agreement.
OR alternative solutionAccording to Walts, it would be a policy in former President Biden’s logic: to assure Ukraine that the US and their allies are with her “as needed”. This is a recipe ‘Essentially endless war In an environment where we literally lose hundreds of thousands of people in a few months. “
Adopting the Russian narrative that the conflict could “lead to World War II”, the US National Security Adviser argues that “we can talk about what is right and what is wrong, but we must also discuss reality on the battlefield.”
But there are other issues that are going to be a central point in the negotiation.
OR France and the Britain They have been offered to send troops inside Ukraine, perhaps along with other European forces. Without being clear if Putin would agree on a peacekeeping force, it would act as a security guarantee for Ukraine, provided you had Washington’s support.
As the columnist David E. Sanger, There are other indications that Donald Trump is preparing for significant concessions to the Russian president.
The US Department of Justice has already announced to European officials that the US is withdrawing from a multinational team that is investigating leaders responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, including Putin himself.
The government has also downgraded the work done by the Ministry of Justice’s accountability team for war crimes, created in 2022 by Meric Garland, to be held accountable for Russians responsible for the atrocities committed after the full invasion.
These actions are a significant retreat from the effort that then Vice President Kamala Harris had “run” – after the US came in 2023 in conclusion that Russia had committed “crimes against humanity”. The steps appear to be part of Trump’s attempt to facilitate an agreement with Putin.
Trump and Putin bet on territorial expansion
Although no historical proportion with the past could be accurate, the negotiation of the end of war in Ukraine has many differences from the conditions in which the three leaders distributed Europe to Winter of 1945, When it was clear that Nazi Germany would lose.
But as Monica Duffy Toff, Professor of International Policy at Tufts University recently wrote, Foreign Affairs, “Today’s geopolitical landscape is especially like the end of World War II”, Because “the Great Powers seek to negotiate a new world order with each other, as the” three greats “did when they re -exalted the world map” in Yalta.
In an interview, the teacher argued that the territorial expansion “is what Putin wants and it is obviously what Trump wants – look only Greenland, Panama and Canada.”
“This is what these leaders believe that they have to do to make their countries again.”
‘The big question mark is the China“, He added. The outcome of the negotiations – and in particular the downpass that Putin is rewarded for an expansive war, “can be a pre -economy about what could happen if Si Jinping decides he wants to take Taiwan” concludes the analysis of the New York Times.