Roman Sheremeta

Mar 24, 2025

The explanation is much simpler than I thought: he’s of russian descent.

We quite literally have a russian agent negotiating with russia on behalf of the U.S. and Ukraine.

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Why did the U.S. shift focus from Ukrainian elections to changing Ukraine’s Constitution?

Maybe because they finally read the Constitution of Ukraine.

Previously, the thinking was: Zelensky is bad because he refuses to sign a capitulation. So, let’s replace him with a “good” candidate — Zaluzhnyi, Poroshenko, Tymoshenko, or someone else. That would require elections.

Then it became clear that no current political figure is willing to sign a capitulation either because it goes against the Constitution of Ukraine. So, the new plan: find a candidate willing to change the Constitution.

But that scenario won’t work either. Only the parliament, which represents the Ukrainian people, can amend the Constitution — and only one-third of Ukrainians are even considering the possibility of territorial concessions.

So what’s left for the Americans to do? Increase political pressure on Ukraine — which is exactly what they’re doing.

And the russians? Step up attacks at the front, intensify airstrikes and the information war — anything to trigger collapse.

But there’s one fundamental contradiction here: russia’s strategy is to drag things out. More attacks. Delayed negotiations. More visits by Witkoff. Trump portraits, and so on. They have time until the end of the year — and they intend to use it to either break Ukraine or seize more territory.

Meanwhile, the U.S. needs speed. The “best negotiator” and “great peacemaker” has promised to end the war in 24 hours. Now, it’s becoming clear that his capitulation plan isn’t working, and he has to come up with new excuses daily — in front of the cameras and the American people.

What’s the outlook?

Once the U.S. realizes that pressure on Ukraine isn’t working, they’ll either start pressuring russia — or walk away and dump the problem on Europe.

P.S. This text is adapted for an English-speaking audience from an original post by Валерій Пекар. The photo is from a British current affairs journal Private Eye portraying Donald Trump’s remarkably Kremlin-friendly negotiations process.

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While we were peacefully worshipping God today in our churches, Ukrainian brothers and sisters in Christ were hiding from russian drones and bombs — and one family was killed.

Five-year-old Nicole and her father, Oleksandr, were killed in Kyiv by a russian drone strike. Her mother is now in the hospital. They were members of Emmanuel Church.

Their family had fled their home in Orikhiv, in the Zaporizhzhia region — a frontline town under constant russian shelling. They left to survive. But the russians took their lives anyway.

My heart breaks for my brothers and sisters in Christ. And I’m truly sorry I didn’t do more. That my country — the U.S. — has betrayed you. That we didn’t provide enough air defenses. I’m ashamed of our president, who calls Putin “a good guy” and claims to be his “good friend.”

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