The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Friday that “contracts” are being negotiated to “divide” the lands in Ukraine as part of a final agreement to end the war, reinforcing its position that kyiv must accept territorial concessions.
Speaking to the press in the Oval Office of the White House, he also reiterated that a high fire could be achieved “very soon.”
“I think we will soon have a full fire and then we will have a contract. The contract is being negotiated at this time. The contract in terms of dividing the lands, etc., etc., is negotiating while we talk,” he added.
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From his return to the White House on January 20, Trump has broken with the position that the United States maintained under the presidency of Joe Biden, based on a total support for Ukraine with sanctions to Moscow, the sending of weapons and the idea that any peace agreement should be negotiated by the Ukrainians.
Trump has made it clear that he wants to end the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and has raised his own conditions for a peace agreement, putting himself on the Moscow side in some matters such as kyiv’s aspiration to enter NATO or the objective of Ukraine to recover all his territories.
Already in February, Trump said that the entrance of Ukraine into NATO is not “practice” and considered “unlikely” that the country manages to recover all the territory that Russia has taken from 2014, including the Crimean Peninsula.
His statements on Friday occur after this week he spoke by phone with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and with the Ukrainian, Volodimir Zelenski, to try to achieve the implementation of a high fire ..
With EFE information
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