It is possible that a war is brewing Ukraine could end by the end of 2025? “Certain“, he answered, in an interview with PieNATO secretary general Mark Rutte. The head of the Atlantic Pact said he wanted “to do it anything is possible” to help the president of the United States Donald Trump to “make peace”. “I completely share Trump’s vision: this carnage must stop,” he said.
“It is always difficult to make predictions, but I really hope that peace will come true soon,” Rutte added, underscoring that “of course, after Geneva Negotiations there should be another meeting and there should be a separate debate, in parallel, with the EU and NATO on some issues”. “And we are not yet at that point”, he admitted. Regarding the US peace plan, Rutte stated that “it is a good basis for discussion”, but “the proposal contains strong elements and other things that require further work and dialogue. This is what Ukraine and the United States are doing today.”
However, for NATO and Europe, Moscow “will continue to be one long-term threat“, even if a peace agreement is to be reached with Ukraine, added the NATO secretary general. “If a Russian president is willing to sacrifice a million of his own people for the sake of this mistake improve the storywe have to be prepared. That’s why we have to spend more money on our defense.”
Russia does not share Rutte’s optimism about an end to the conflict any time soon. “Wait again, it’s too early to talk about it“, commented a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskovresponding to journalists who asked if a deal was in sight. On the other hand, the latest 19-point proposal emerging from the ongoing negotiations between Kiev and Washington does not satisfy Moscow. “We want to do it,” said the Russian presidential adviser on foreign policy while speaking on Russian television. Yuri Ushakov which stated that “some aspects” of Trump’s proposal “can be considered positive, but many aspects require a serious discussion among experts”, which has not yet happened. Ushakov added that Moscow had accepted, only unofficially, “different versions” of the plans, “some of them may even be confusing.” In this context, where Washington is dealing on the one hand with Kiev and on the other with Moscow, “the Europeans they get in the way in all this, which I think is completely useless.”
Ushakov further defines “not acceptableleaked telephone conversation with him Steve Witkofffollowing the publication of the transcript released by the agency Bloomberg. The adviser explained that he would discuss it by telephone with the US special envoy, before the US special envoy is scheduled to arrive in Moscow next week for talks with the president. Vladimir Putin.
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