Has Donald Trump abandoned Ukraine?

On behalf of Donald Trump, Monday called with Vladimir Putin of Vladimir Putin to raise hope of the “Largecale Trade” between Russia and the United States, “When this catastrophic ‘Bloodbath’ ended”.

Russian leader’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said the tone of the two -hour conversation was so friendly that the President did not want to be the first to get the phone down.

It felt like a betrayal to the Ukrainian and allies in Europe.

It was not just that the US President did not see any pressure on Russia to get a ceasefire. According to the teaching of this call, Trump further made clear that the United States was bowing down as an intermediary WarMoscow and Kiev to leave themselves to find out themselves.

The President of Ukraine warned about the consequences of Vloadimire Zelnsky. After talking to Trump, he said in a statement, “It is very important for us to all that the United States does not keep themselves away from the pursuit of the United States, because the one who benefits from it is Putin,” he said in a statement after talking to Trump.

For observers, it was a turning point after more than three years of dispute. A president who promised to end the Ukraine war for the first time in his second term, was washing the hand of this attempt and the Ukraine had left the attacker’s compassion. This call confirms the worst fear of Europeans: Putin’s shameless US President was ready to pivot Moscow and sell Kiev.

Trump had a suggestion for even replacing the United States as an intermediary: Pope Leo IV. “Vatican. … said it would be very interested in the hosting of the discussion,” he wrote about the true social.

Talking to Putin after calling to European leaders not only he was separated that he was separated, he didn’t even want to apply extra pressure on Moscow when bilateral discussions Russia Two people briefed the conversation that Ukraine was underway.

It represents a volt-fee for Trump. Just a week ago, when he failed to implement the immediate ceasefire, he joined other Western leaders to threaten to impose new disciplinary measures on Russia.

Trump himself later admitted to journalists that he did not reconsider Putin’s previous claim to stop his attack in Ukraine’s civilian region.

“The call was won by Trump,” said Steven Pifer, a former US ambassador to Ukraine at the Stanford University’s International Protection and Cooperation Center. “He made it clear that no ceasefire would soon happen, so Russia could continue the war. And no additional restrictions will be applied yet.”

Trump and Putin agreed that Russia and Ukraine would discuss directly, to continue Istanbul From last Friday.

Putin said that Russia was ready to work in the memorandum with Ukraine “potential future peace agreement”. These include “the principles on which a peace agreement will be based on” and “If the specified agreement is reached in a specific agreement, the possible ceasefire for a specified period” will include.

Yet Putin was surprising about what he was talking about.

A senior Ukrainian officer who is familiar with the calls about the concept of memorandum is that “no one knows what it is, what is the reason [and] Why this is important “. Zelnsky himself told reporters on Monday night that the memorandum proposal was” unknown “to him.

“The Russians will conduct lower-level conversations, exchange various documents and continue to fight,” Bill Taylor, who served as the US ambassador to the Ukraine from 2006-5, said. “How many more days will Trump keep up with all these stallings?”

The desire to separated in the United States has been flagged for weeks, Trump itself but the Secretary of Secretary Marco Rubio and Vice-President JD Vans, who have repeatedly expressed disappointment with Russia and Ukraine. Van told reporters on Monday that the United States would finally say: “This is not our war.”

“We’ll try to finish it, but if we can’t finish it we’re going to say in the end, ‘What do you know? It was like trying, we’re not doing it anymore.’

Trump re -mentioned that when he told reporters at the White House that something “was going to happen” to end the war. “And if it doesn’t happen I just came back and they had to continue. It was a European situation, and it should have been as a European situation.”

Some experts see Trump’s desire to be deprived as understandable. “Every party’s view was to make Trump crazy on the other side, and it was destructive on his core,” says Stemson Center Think-Tank. “If he could forced both sides to talk to each other and get himself out of the picture, it might need it to move things”

But Trump has now considered more interested in relations with Moscow than to solve the war, others said.

“At this point, Trump seems to be seeing the normalization of Russia-US relations as its last,” said Carnegie Endeem’s Vice-President Andrew Weis for international peace. “Everything else is subjected to that goal.”

The clear desire for Putin’s delay can reflect Russia’s confidence in the military progress of Ukraine’s full-scale aggression, where it enhances the aggressive expedition to the larger part of the front line.

A military spokesman for the Ukraine said the “heavy war” spread to the north of Pokorvsk and the nearest Toretes, the strategic city of East Ukraine. Soldiers said a highway that served as an important logistical hub was covered by regular drone attacks, threatening Ukraine activities in the region.

The Ukrainian analytical group near the military, depstate, called the situation “hostile” in favor of Kiev’s forces, saying that Russian troops were pressing through the “position” and reached the administrative border of the Donatesk region “one -sided regions in 2022 were not fully controlled in 2022.

The map of the dipstate, where it tracks changes in the front line, looks less than 5 km from the borders of the Russians where the fight is the most intense.

Capturing the entire Eastern Donetsk region – with neighboring Luhansk, Kheron and Japorizia regions, it remains the main military purpose for Moscow – the other three regions connected in 2022. Following this goal, its army faced heavy losses. In talks with Ukrainian officials in Turkey last week, Russia had a conditional ceasefire on the withdrawal of all its forces from four regions.

Rob Lee, a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said Russia succeeded in the front line in the front line and arranging for a large number of troops to recruit.

“Military, I think Russia may continue to fight for the sustainable appointment of volunteers.” “The leadership of Russia probably believes that they can still improve their position on the battlefield.”

With the approaching of the summer, the weather conditions will become more suitable for the aggressive expedition, which can benefit Russia, Lee said.

“Russia has not yet achieved the minimum goal of occupying all the Donetsk and Luhansk regions … so the discussion may try to occupy the territory as much as possible this summer before being more seriously involved in the discussion.”

Additional Report of James Polytie in Washington