US President Donald Trump is disappointed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Europeans, considering their demands to end the war unrealistic and convinced that Ukraine must cede territory for the sake of peace with Russia.

This is written by  The Atlantic , reports  Censor.NET .

European officials have said there is some confusion, partly related to Putin’s meeting with Witkoff on August 6.

Then the Russian dictator said that he was demanding de jure recognition of control over Crimea and Donbas. At the same time, Russia was allegedly ready to abandon legal claims to Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.

However, the question of the fate of Russian soldiers in the last two mentioned regions was not raised. The Kremlin leader conveniently avoided this topic, and Witkoff never asked. That is, Russia’s demands have changed little since the beginning of the war, the publication emphasizes.

After meeting with Putin in Alaska on August 15, the US President began talking about territorial concessions from Ukraine and peace negotiations with the Russian Federation without a ceasefire. 

As an unnamed senior official and former White House official told reporters, in recent days Trump has expressed irritation in private conversations that his high-profile diplomatic efforts have not yielded results .

“The form of a possible peace agreement, if concluded, remains unclear: the US has not made firm commitments to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, but the Trump administration is considering continuing intelligence sharing with the Ukrainians and potentially providing air defense assistance,” the article says.

“He just wants it to end… It almost doesn’t matter how,” the senior official added.

Author:  Valeria Sushkova Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3571091

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