Ukraine’s readiness to offer regionalism to Russia according to Trump’s proposed conflict resolution plan
Reports indicated that Ukraine will make territorial concessions to Russia according to the conflict resolution plan that the US president-elect may propose.
Ukraine’s accession to NATO will be suspended, but won’t be removed from the agenda completely, as the Russian leadership seeks.
The US president-elect, Donald Trump hasn’t yet convened a working group to discuss the peace plan for Ukraine, while the same source believes that according to Trump’s plan, a significant part of the country’s territory will go to Russia.
At the same time, Ukraine’s accession to NATO will be postponed, but the White House won’t completely abandon this idea.
Trump’s plan also includes providing Ukraine with more weapons if Russia doesn’t agree to the proposed agreement according to this formula.
Trump’s advisers also acknowledged that achieving a settlement would require direct contacts between the US politician and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as with the outgoing Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
For his part, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte suggested that Kiev postpone any peace negotiations with Moscow until its arsenal is filled with Western weapons supplies.
“Ukraine should postpone any peace negotiations with Russia until Western allies provide adequate military assistance,” Rutte was quoted as saying by the New York Times.
He pointed out, “this is necessary to strengthen Kyiv’s position in the negotiations”.
It’s noteworthy that at the end of last November, Vladimir Zelensky spoke in an interview with Sky News about the possibility of agreeing to a ceasefire and giving up some territories in exchange for Ukraine’s membership in NATO.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last July that a ceasefire in Ukraine was impossible without the other side agreeing to irreversible steps acceptable to Moscow.
Putin also stressed that Russia cannot allow the enemy to exploit the ceasefire to improve its position and restore its strength.
Putin also noted that Ukraine’s potential NATO membership poses a threat to the country’s security and stressed that the risks of Kiev joining the alliance were one of the reasons for starting Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
The Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that pumping weapons into Ukraine will not weaken Moscow’s resolve and will not change the course of the special military operation, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated that there are currently no grounds for negotiations with Ukraine.
It’s noteworthy that the US National Security Advisor in the next administration, Mike Waltz, had announced that the administration of President Donald Trump would begin its efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine from its first day in January 2025.
