Bogdan Frolov21:13, 12.08.25

This is how the Kremlin dictator plans to “get Trump out of the situation.”

Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin is offering the US president “a convenient way out of the situation,” Kremlin foreign policy adviser Dmitry Suslov said. He said Putin expects two possible scenarios to unfold at the summit in Alaska.

The first of them is the adoption of a bilateral Russian-American plan to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine, writes  Corriere della Sera . The article says that this is allegedly “fundamentally important” from the Kremlin’s point of view: the agreement is only between Russia and the United States, without Ukraine and Europe.

The plan could include the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from those areas of Donbass where they are still present, and the withdrawal of Russia from the Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, while maintaining the front line in the remaining zones.

It is reported that a year ago Moscow demanded a complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from all four occupied regions, and now “it is asking only for a withdrawal from Donbass.” Also, a key part of the agreement is Ukraine’s commitment not to join NATO.

Suslov emphasized that the refusal to join NATO is supposedly a “mandatory and inevitable condition.” “Then the final agreements should, naturally, include the demilitarization of Ukraine and constitutional reform toward federalization,” he noted.

The second option is that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European partners reject this decision, and then Trump completely stops all military aid to Kyiv and even stops selling weapons to Europeans so that they can transfer them to Ukraine.

“This will accelerate Ukraine’s defeat and its complete collapse,” Suslov emphasized.

He believes that Trump may take such a step because he “put himself in a difficult position” when he demanded that Brazil, India and China stop importing Russian oil, threatening them with secondary sanctions. Suslov added that Trump would show weakness if he “backed down.” Or he would get involved in a serious political and economic conflict with China and other BRICS countries. 

“If the Alaska summit is successful, with the approval of a joint plan for a ceasefire in Ukraine, then the fuse that he carelessly lit with China, India and Brazil will be defused, and the American president will even be able to take historical credit for it,” he concluded.

(C)UNIAN 2025