Yuri Kobzar19:43, 09.08.25
If Ukraine is indeed forced to make concessions and sanctions are lifted from Russia, every dictator on the planet will see that aggression is now rewarded.
The US and Russia are probably discussing the details of what territories Ukraine must give up in order for the aggressor to leave it alone , or at least promise it peace. On the part of the US, this is an unequivocal betrayal of Ukraine and the entire democratic world, which makes our planet a very dangerous place. This opinion was expressed on the pages of The Telegraph by columnist Daniel Hannan.
He notes that Trump’s latest diplomatic achievements are “a direct defeat” not only for Ukraine, but also for Western democratic values in general, which have brought much benefit to humanity over the past 80 years. Now the world is entering a new era.
“Aggression is rewarded. Borders are changed by force. A fragile dictatorship has defeated a Western alliance with a combined economy forty times its own,” Hannan writes.
According to the journalist, it was the Kremlin that suggested Alaska as a place for negotiations with Trump: to show that Putin is a welcome guest in the US and that all attention is focused on him.
Although the details of the preliminary agreements between the Kremlin and the White House remain secret today, their general outlines have leaked to the press: Russia will not only retain the territories of Ukraine it has already seized, but will also receive those it was unable to seize; sanctions against Russia must also be lifted, and Ukraine will lose U.S. military aid.
“These concessions amount to a colossal victory for Russia, regardless of what is decided regarding Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO, formal recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, or exactly where the borders are frozen,” the columnist writes.
Hannan considers such a peace agreement a strategic defeat for the West, recalling that Europe supports Ukraine not out of simple sympathy, but because Russia has grossly violated the principles of coexistence of states in the modern world, written in the blood of world wars.
“When Putin gets his big share of the spoils, every idiot dictator in the world will understand. NATO, the most powerful alliance on the planet, will not protect any of its friends. The old order is over. Something very cold and dark is coming,” the journalist concludes.
Negotiations between Russia and the USA
As UNIAN reported, yesterday US President Donald Trump told journalists that Ukraine would have to agree to certain territorial exchanges as part of the peace agreement . However, he did not specify what exactly he meant.
According to insiders cited by Western media, during negotiations in Moscow, Trump’s special representative Steve Witkoff and Russian dictator Putin discussed the issue of territorial concessions in exchange for an end to hostilities. It seems that Ukraine should give the aggressor the rest of Donbass in exchange for either the occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhia, or the occupied pieces of Sumy and Kharkiv, or simply an end to hostilities as such.
Although these details of the negotiations were not officially confirmed by anyone, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that Kiev would not make unilateral territorial concessions to the aggressor.
(c)UNIAN 2025
Dan Hannan has written a very tragic article in the DT and it is very painful to read.
Petro Poroshenko has commented:
Even the very fact of Trump’s meeting with putin, if it happens, will be a great success for putin. Because it will violate the international isolation that has been established over the years. This was shared with reporters BBC
The ultimatum deadline that Trump set for Putin is coming. When time runs out, we and allies must act effectively. Ukraine pays the highest price for every day of delaying the ceasefire.
The US President promised that if putin does not accept the conditions that the allies have offered him, there must be a “plan B”. It needs to be more guns, money for Ukraine and stronger sanctions against Russia. And no less important: support of the transatlantic integration of Ukraine. This is a clear demonstration of the message that Russia cannot blackmail the entire free world.
Ukrainians are a nation that does not trade its own territories. Therefore we cannot set a precedent when peace will be achieved at the expense of actions taken by Ukraine.
Putin does not need Ukrainian territory. He does not need part of the territory of Ukraine. His goal is to achieve geostrategic success by placing the pro-Kremlin government in Kyiv.
A potential meeting between Trump and Putin is already a challenge to Russia’s international policy and the situation of international isolation. Therefore, it is necessary to get the maximum benefit from these negotiations – the results should be in the form of an unconditional ceasefire at sea, on land and in the air.
This was talked to journalists on the air of the TV channel BBC News discussing peaceful talks.
Negotiations during which the parties will not adhere to the principle of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” is a dangerous precedent.
Ukrainians are a nation that does not trade its own territories. It is not possible to gain peace through actions on the side of Ukraine. Putin does not only need our territory. He does not need part of the territory of Ukraine. His goal is a geostrategic success in the form of establishing a pro-Kremlin government in Kyiv
International allies of Ukraine must understand that Putin cannot be trusted. There should be an alternative plan B, which, in the event of Russia’s refusal of the agreements, will intensify the sanction pressure on the aggressor, and provide Ukraine with the necessary tools for the fight further.
Dan Hannan’s full article :
* Daniel Hannan
Trump has betrayed Ukraine and the world is immeasurably more dangerous
No US president has done more to make the West weak again than the current incumbent. It will take decades to repair the damage
This is a straightforward defeat. A defeat, not just for Ukraine, but for the values which the Anglosphere and its allies have upheld since 1941, to the immense benefit of the human race. Aggression is being rewarded. Borders are being changed by force. A brittle dictatorship has defeated a Western alliance with a combined economy forty times larger than its own. The prestige of the democracies is suffering a Suez-level hit.
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska – a venue surely proposed by the Kremlin, both to demonstrate that Putin is again welcome in the United States and to suggest that there is nothing terribly new about ceding territory – all the momentum is with the Russian leader.
From the moment he took office, Trump has been wheedling and conciliatory with Putin, aggressive and bullying with Volodymyr Zelensky. Who can say what animates him? Perhaps he can’t forgive Zelensky for his cameo role in l’affaire Hunter Biden; perhaps, as conspiracy theorists claim, Putin has kompromat on him; or perhaps it is simply Trump’s customary deference towards dictators.
Frankly, it doesn’t much matter. Whatever his motives, Trump has behaved exactly as a Russian asset would, not only vis-à-vis Ukraine, but also by making aggressive territorial claims against Denmark and threatening Canada with annexation. His tariff policies have caused as much disruption to Western economies as his sanctions have to Russia. Putin could not have wished for more.
We do not know how much has already been settled, and there are still details to be hammered out. But the broad outlines of the proposed ceasefire deal can be glimpsed in leaks to both American and Russian media.
Putin will hang on to most of what he has seized – not just the territories he occupied in 2014, but many of the lands he has conquered since 2022 and even, according to some briefings, those parts of Donetsk that are currently under Ukrainian control. Sanctions will be eased, and we might even see more economic collaboration between the US and Russia than before 2014. In any event, the US will stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.
These concessions constitute a colossal Russian victory, regardless of what is decided on Ukraine’s Nato aspirations, formal recognition of Russian sovereignty in Crimea or precisely where the lines are frozen.
To understand the scale of the West’s defeat, we need to remember why we were backing Ukraine in the first place. Not because we thought that Zelensky was brave or handsome or even particularly democratic. Not because we believed that Ukrainians were kinder or more amusing than their Russian cousins. Not even because, long before 2022, Russia had been buzzing our airspace and overseeing cyberattacks against our infrastructure and had, on two occasions, committed acts of war against us when it ordered its operatives to carry out lethal attacks on British soil (against Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 and, unsuccessfully, against Sergei Skripal in 2018).
No, we are backing Ukraine because it is the wronged party. We are sending it weapons because it was attacked without provocation by a neighbour to whom it presented no threat. We are training its soldiers because, when Ukraine agreed to hand over its nuclear arsenal in 1994, it did so in exchange for an explicit promise that its independence would be respected within its existing borders – a promise guaranteed by Britain, the United States and (never forget) Russia.
The idea that countries should not help themselves to slices of territory is not some ancient and immutable principle. On the contrary, it dates in its current form from exactly 84 years ago, August 1941, when Churchill and Roosevelt met in Newfoundland and agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a set of rules that they wanted to shape the post-war world. Land should not be annexed by force, nor borders altered without the consent of local people. Aggression should not be rewarded. Raw materials should be accessible on world markets and sea-lanes kept open, so that there would be less incentive to invade a neighbour. Democracy and self-determination should be encouraged over autocracy.
When these ideals were proclaimed, the United States was still neutral. Four months later, after Pearl Harbor, the Atlantic Charter informed the war aims of the Allies. Its principles went on to shape the UN Charter and the Nato alliance. It is true that they were sometimes violated, for we live in an imperfect world. But they at least remained the aspiration. Until now.
It cannot be sufficiently stressed that our interest in Ukraine was to uphold the international order under which mankind had flourished since 1945. It was never about Zelensky, however gallant his initial response to the invasion.
Trumpians like to point to corruption and illiberalism in Ukraine as though they invalidate the premise of our assistance. But our 1994 guarantee was never conditional on who was in government, or what kind of government it was.
There is nothing new here. Poland was hardly a model democracy when Britain guaranteed its sovereignty in March 1939. Józef Piłsudski’s 1926 coup had created an autocratic regime which, while it stopped well short of the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany or the USSR, none the less harassed dissidents and censored media.
In much the same way, Ukraine today, while nowhere near Russian levels of despotism, is far from being a free country. This should not surprise us. As Roger Scruton used to say, the worst sin of communism was to destroy civil associations, making it hard to build the trust on which an open society must rest.
Over the past three weeks, Zelensky’s international credit has fallen almost as low as his domestic ratings. Crowds have been protesting against his decision to move against an anti-corruption body after it pointed to irregularities in some state contracts.
Few things are worse for a country’s morale than the sense that its leaders are enriching themselves, for corruption in wartime means funds that were supposed to go into artillery are disappearing into bank accounts in Cyprus.
I was unsurprised by the protests. I have watched over three years as Zelensky has weakened local government and purged critical mayors. A case might be made in wartime for cracking down on pro-Russian parties; but he cracked down almost as hard on the pro-Western parties.
Eighteen months ago, I was supposed to be sharing a platform in the US with the former Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, but he was banned from attending. I wanted to make more of a fuss, but MPs from his party begged me not to, as they did not want to hurt Ukraine’s international image.
None of this should make the slightest difference to our policy. But I fear that it will, because support for Ukraine has been presented as a goodies-and-baddies issue rather than a question of defending territorial integrity and national sovereignty. We somehow seem to find those aims sterile, dull and inadequate.
Just as Tony Blair once claimed in a party conference speech that we had joined the Second World War to end Nazism (when in fact we joined to defend Poland), so we now imagine that we came to the aid of Ukraine because Zelensky is nicer than Putin.
It may in fact now be Zelensky who has the greater incentive to keep fighting, since his presidency will not survive peace on anything like the terms proposed. But, to repeat, that does not alter the fundamentals. We were backing and supplying Ukraine because the world order that was born after 1945 lifted our species to unprecedented heights of peace and prosperity.
When Putin gets to keep the better part of his spoils, and furious Ukrainians eject their regime, every tinpot dictator in the world will get the message. Nato, the most powerful alliance on the planet, would not protect one of its friends. The old order is over. The world of the Atlantic Charter has gone. Something altogether colder and darker is on its way.
Taco, being a gangster, traitor, and a pedophile, must be prosecuted and put into prison, where he belongs until the very last breath he takes.